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PlantSomeTrees726 karma

I've been paid anywhere from 6.7cents to 1.05 dollars for a tree, it all depends on the contract specs, your location, and the land you are planting. An average day is $300-500. I got into it like many others Canadians as a summer job during university, replant.ca is a good source of job links, now I plant 8 months of the year. I'll elaborate more tonight but have to run for work

PlantSomeTrees111 karma

My worst most grueling contract would have to be my rookie season. In a camp with 100 rookies and 10 vets in northern ontario, Nakina to be exact. It rained day in and day out and we had no Dry Tent so we were sleeping in wet clothes to try and dry them out over night, it rained to the point our 6 shitter holes in the center of camp overflowed while we were at work and flooded peoples tents with shit water... not mine thank god. Anyways the moral was just super low and with so few vets there was no where to look for guidance or support, but camp life saved it for me. After making it through that however I knew I would never quit ---- Edit oh and did I mention mosquitoes and black flies as thick as fog that you're inhaling and blowing out of your nose all day

PlantSomeTrees110 karma

hope this helps - http://www.replant.ca/reference/replant_chapter_04.pdf ive worked with americans they just need visas

PlantSomeTrees34 karma

There are multiple ways your quality and numbers are verified. To start with every planter(s) are given a cache of trees these trees are tracked by box size, in X number of bundles of Y amount of trees per box. By this this know how many trees are taken from each cache to prevent overclaiming. Each planters piece size is also know and based on contract density its pretty easy to know how many trees roughly will go into a piece, if a planter is putting too many tress into a piece its either high density or stashing and will be found by the company.

Other than that our quality is checked by our company and the forestry client checkers, they throw 1/200 ha or 1/100 ha plots a throughout your piece to verify quality

PlantSomeTrees22 karma

it all depends on where you're planting as well. In ontario and quebec I had many days over 5000 trees at 0.08 whereas on Haida Ill plant 400 at 1.05$ and 400 at 0.20$