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Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Roland Emery, BivouacWest's CEO, is controlling and loading boxes of seedlings (western red cedars, yellow cedars and spruces) into the truck that will bring them to the barge that will bring them to the place where they are going to be planted.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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The planting sites of that project were located on the continent, in front of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. Niel, Brandon and the pilot Chad fly in a floatplane, Beaver or Turbo Beaver type.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Planters are dropped at their planting blocs with a chopper, the blocs are sometimes very difficult to get to, or far apart.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Commuting conditions can be quite pleasant. Some of the commuting can last about an hour. Flying under the clouds, following an inlet...
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Basic planting equipment: bags for seedlings, shovel, personal bag (for food, etc.)
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Preparing for the day. Vehicles and boxes of seedlings were brought by barges during the preparation phase a few days before. Some of the blocs necessitate several days of planting and can be separated by kms. The planted species are endemic and very valuable: western red cedar, sitka spruces, yellow cedar...
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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The fore(wo)man in front of some clear cuts later to be replanted.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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A seedling, just planted. The red ribbon is a mark for later control by the fore(wo)man and the client (in this particular case, the canadian government)
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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A planter refills his bags with seedlings. The whole strategy is to balance the amount of trips to the cache and the weights of the bags.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Boxes of seedlings are burnt on site once emptied.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Chris meditates to get prepared for the hard planting conditions to come. Planting bags with seedlings are in the foreground.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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For this operation the planters were based in Port Hardy and were commuting every day using float planes to the inlets where the planting was happening. Sometimes they live on a boat for the duration of the operation, going from inlet to inlet in remote places.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Chad was one of the pilots. The planes are Beavers and Turbo Beavers. They take up to 6 to 8 people, plus personal equipment.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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For this operation the planters were based in Port Hardy and were commuting every day using float planes to the inlets where the planting was happening. Sometimes they live on a boat for the duration of the operation, going from inlet to inlet in remote places.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Chad paddles to bring the plane to a suitable place for take-off.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Often there is no pier to embark either.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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The helicopter is coming to pick up planters who just arrived by floatplane...
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Jennifer is some fairly steep slash (a mix of what is left when the valuable trees have been cut down).
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Jennifer in action, boots are obviously corcked. Slopes are often very steep and the terrain buried in slash and bushes (like salmonberries, with thorns)
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Brady takes a small break.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Chris in action. The best of planters read the terrain as surfers read the ocean. Planting is paid as "piece work", about 25 to 30 cents/seedling depending on conditions... The best ones, nicknamed highballers, can plant up to 2000 seedlings per day.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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For this operation the planters were based in Port Hardy and were commuting every day using float planes to the inlets where the planting was happening. Sometimes they live on a boat for the duration of the operation, going from inlet to inlet in remote places.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Jennifer with some anti-bug equipment. Bugs (black flies, mosquitoes, horse flies) are a real nuisance but (or maybe therefore) the planters always keep a strange and pretty specific sense of humor.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Erith mark a seedling, hidden close by a stump, with a blue ribbon.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Roland, Bivouac West's boss, does last minute planning, on site.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Chris is one of the best planters. Planting is piece work, they get paid 20 to 30 cents per seedling, depending on terrain conditions (determined by Roland and Kelly every day).
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Brandon in action.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Jennifer with a scarf for protection against bugs, an absolute nuisance, especially when there is no wind.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Mike walks in circle to calibrate his step size in order to instinctively know the distance between planted seedlings, insuring the proper density.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Erith in action. The ribbon indicates the location of the planted seedling, for later control by the fore(wo)man (and the final client)
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Planting under the rain is no picnic.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Kelly, the fore(wo)man, controls planting density. Using a string and her shovel she verifies that x trees have been planted in a radius of y meters, following governmental regulations.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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In "heli-blocs" helicopters use pads to pick up and unload workers and equipment. The pads were built on site by the first loggers arrived.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Kelly and Erith discuss planting strategies...
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Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Kelly controls the work of a planter: density, quality of the anchoring of the seedling, presence of the fertilizer bags...
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Kelly in a heli-bloc. Heli logging means loggers and trees are moved by helicopter, therefore the planters as well. There are no roads getting to the blocs. These blocs are very hard in terms of steepness and slash. Often an assistant is posted as "grizzly watch" with a whistle.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Brandon in action in a "heli-bloc". Heli logging means loggers and trees are moved by helicopters, there are no roads getting to the blocs. These blocs are very hard in terms of steepness and slash.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Kelly controlling in the heli-bloc.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Glen in action... He has been planting for 18 years.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Tom in action.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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In "heli-blocs" helicopters use pads to pick up and unload workers. The pads were built on site by the first workers arrived.
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Neil seems to be in communication with that stump. Many planters are into this business for the relationship to nature. This team is composed of professional planters, some have been planting for more than 15 years.
Extreme Planting
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Niel. Planters have a weird sense of humour, based on terrain conditions, bugs and weather. They need to stay sane!
Extreme Planting - The men (and women) who planted trees in British Columbia
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Brandon enjoys the landscape, waiting for the floatplane to commute back. Sometimes they commute by boats and stay in contract on sites for a month, living in the boat.