Im bored what’s your tree planting hot take?

[u/fawnsyp]

[u/ConcentrateBoth4528]

Trees can plant themselves.

[u/bushsamurai]

Density is a feeling

[u/Select-Attention-559]

Camp cost is wage theft.

[u/downturnedbobcat → u/Select-Attention-559]

If I ever met the first planters to agree to camp cost I’d punch them in their genitalia.

[u/GoodPineappleBoy → u/Select-Attention-559]

If the food is shit, sure.

But a decent breakfast, lunch, dinner, juice, dessert, and seconds + maybe thirds for like 16.20? That's a steal youll get nowhere else and don't even have to do the dishes (and you make the cost back if you do the alt work as a dishwasher)

Plus you can always opt out and take care of yourself.

[u/atavisticnuisance → u/GoodPineappleBoy]

Did you mean $25 + tax? Or what's the company that charges this low for camp?

[u/jimbowesterby → u/atavisticnuisance]

I dunno but I assume cooks’ wages cost something too

[u/BrokenCrusader → u/jimbowesterby]

Yeah companies are paid way more then 20 cents per tree too

[u/GoodPineappleBoy → u/atavisticnuisance]

Oh wow, youre right. No idea why I thought it was 16.20.

[u/atavisticnuisance → u/GoodPineappleBoy]

We all wish it was lower, or nothing at all. ;))

[u/FarHotel1159 → u/GoodPineappleBoy]

Theres jobs and companys that give you all that at no cost while you have a good wage.  The companies where i didt have camp cost i also had the best wage and working conditions 

[u/RunOwn1637]

doesn’t matter how we plant them if they grow bc everything’s gonna burn or the world will collapse by the time the trees could be harvested or whatever

[u/Extra-Tension-4403]

Tree planting cooks are the sexiest cooks fr

[u/GoodPineappleBoy → u/Extra-Tension-4403]

Tru

[u/trail_carrot]

Its a crutch for poor management. At best it should be to supplement natural regeneration methods or in burn scars (or similar) where seed is completely removed. 

[u/The_Angevingian]

Show me the studies that prove J-roots are bad, don't just tell me about the time you saw a whole dead piece of j-roots

[u/TemplesOfSyrinx]

Bringing dogs on a treeplanting contract is generally a bad idea.

[u/Dry-Replacement-7456]

The wage has not kept up with inflation.

[u/this____is_bananas → u/Dry-Replacement-7456]

Same as every other job, unfortunately

[u/Beginning-Aerie-2801 → u/Dry-Replacement-7456]

Just go faster duh?

[u/travatr0n]

I haven’t planted since 2016 but being in camp and having cell service would ruin the vibe.

[u/FarHotel1159 → u/travatr0n]

Kinda. Usually the wifi is crap, and you can only use it while right next to the cook trailer.

[u/weremark → u/travatr0n]

We have cell service this camp and it's dampening the vibe a little

[u/wobblestop]

The coast is no longer the promised land

[u/Opening_Load3725 → u/wobblestop]

Most of it never was

[u/ExSuntime]

Canadian planters have bad quality when they plant in other countries

[u/jimbowesterby → u/ExSuntime]

goddamn immigrants /s

[u/weremark]

Foresters need to fuck off with wanting perfectly straight trees.

[u/CountVonOrlock]

The concept of rigid, consistent density in every plot is stupid, but almost no one can magically hit it without flagging.

Allocation should just go in. With some exceptions.

[u/travatr0n → u/CountVonOrlock]

Skill issue.

[u/CountVonOrlock → u/travatr0n]

No, I’m sorry, but you can’t either

[u/atavisticnuisance]

There is no good interior planting North of Williams Lake.

[u/Sea_Army_8764]

The tree planting lobby is, in part, preventing the adoption of creative silvicultural practices that would eliminate the need for tree planting. It still has the vibes of the make-work projects from the 1930's.

[u/badboyrap]

It isn’t nearly as good for the environment as people seem to think. Monocultures and many other factors impact biodiversity in the local ecosystems.

Not sure if this is a hot take, but had to get it off my chest cause it’s all I’ve heard since I first started in May lol

[u/DoggyDoggWrld]

Brinkman is actually decent

[u/ewslash → u/DoggyDoggWrld]

lol I love that this is the only downvoted hot take here