A few years back Camelbak gave Tree-planter.com a bunch of hydration packs to give away. What I found especially cool was that they sent us products from their military line-up. Talk about rugged!

Anyways, we were doing a bit of clean-up today and we found one that is brand new, tags and all.

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CMJ Productions, a Montreal TV production company (www.cmjprod.ca) is currently casting for their upcoming documentary series on tree planting. Profiling planters during the Spring 2010 Ontario season, CMJ is on the hunt for dynamic tree planters - from all walks of life - to profile on the show! Whether you're a veteran or a newbie - we're looking for those adventurers who are willing to have every aspect of their tree planting experience filmed on camera.

Buy your planting gear online and be entered to win!

Gear-Up.com is offering over $900 in prizes through their annual Tree-planter.com give-away. Get you gear now, before the season begins, and be entered to win great prizes from the top names in the business.

A new (or at least recently posted) release from Lars Zergun titled Gorilla Warfare.

Photo by scott Chisholm

It happens every year around this time. The emails pour in to Tree-planter.com from all over the world asking for a job tree planting. Sorry, we're not hiring - because we don't plant trees (any more). This website is a portal to information about tree planting.

If you are looking for a job, we do have a very comprehensive list of tree planting companies under the Tree Planting Companies link (above).  You will also find lots of useful information about tree planting so you can figure out if it is right for you and how to get hired.

Photo by Hugh

2010 is going to be a rough year for tree planters. Rookies looking to get hired will likely have a hard time finding a company willing to take them on and many veterans will be looking around to see who has trees and is offering the best season.

The companies advertising on Tree-planter.com are a great place to start. These companies have gone out of their way to express their interest in finding quality planters and showing off what their company has to offer.

Lots of companies are not listing this year. In some cases, the company is going into hibernation for 2010, and in others they just don't have enough trees to be thinking about attracting people to work for them.

By: Alex Peters

One of the craziest stories I can recall from treeplanting draws from the advice and management of a terrible rookie crewboss. This story is about bears, but more specifically it’s about how one crazy crewboss showed no fear or regard for her planters. It was the second shift planting a contract in Beardmore Ontario and the bugs hadn't even hit yet. I was slowly planting my day away when I saw a group of planters convening on the road nearby. I was still new to the concept that every six to ten seconds wasted I would lose eight cents on my daily earnings, so I went over to see what was up. When I got there I found that earlier in the day a bear had stalked a girl a good 75M to the road before other planters noticed her yelling and backing away. They came to the rescue and the bear ran away.

We Will All Be Trees by Josh Massey gives us a hilarious and illuminating insider’s report on tree planting culture, combined with a biotech mystery.

Grant is a long-time planter with a cracked past, whose already jaded veteran worldview becomes increasingly unhinged throughout the course of a brutal contract. Grant, along with a slew of odd characters — including bikers, rappers, hippie rednecks and freeloving Quebecers – must attempt to upend the malevolent plans of Northern Cloners and reset the balance between planter and tree.

Employing a dreamy prose style and multiple points of view, Massey brings to life an engagement with nature that acknowledges its terrifying, illogical aspects.

Available through bookstores and online at Amazon and the Conundrum press website.

Article By: Alex Peters

Ontario is notorious in the treeplanting community. Many Ontario planters get a season under their belt and then diversify their treeplanting resume in a new province with the hope of earning more than 8 cents a tree.

In my first season we faced the usual mental and physical treeplanting challenges; rain, snow, stuck vehicles, and wildlife. But preparing for these certainly could not prepare us for the brutal reality that hit everyone in camp during the last few days of our summer contract.