The day started out in the Stum like every other day in the Stum as a tree planter: rainy, cold, and miserable. And then the storm came in.
July 11, 2017
July 8, 2015
To those who could never understand the appeal of tree planting I would guess that you don’t know the smells, the scenery(rich valleys, mountains and old growth forests), the people, the money, the camaraderie, the food, the personal growth, the visceral experience of slowly killing yourself through work but loving every second of it. To those […]
June 17, 2015
There is a normal course of events for the start of tree planting season. You leave your home where spring is in the air, fly into central/northern British Columbia(or Ontario or wherever) and the weather is cold, wet and miserable. I have distinct memories or camping near the Nazko Reserve in Quesnel and waking up […]
May 13, 2015
A warning that this post may sound like an old man harping about how different things are nowadays and how the kids don’t know how easy they have it. This is my ninth season tree planting, a place I never would have imagined myself being, but a place I am comfortable in nonetheless. Gone […]
April 4, 2015
Tree planting gear is a peculiar thing that seems to transcend time and space.Tree planters speak in days and weeks instead of months and years. I mean this to say, tree planting gear that lasts 3 weeks in the bush will probably last you 10 years in the real world. I have a rain jacket […]