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(Logging truck rumbles)

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(Shovel slices repeatedly)

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(Ground cover crunches
underfoot)

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(Flies buzz, branches snap)

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(Ground cover crunches)

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(Shovel slices)

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(Shovel chops and slices,
foliage crunches)

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(Breathing hard,
shovel thuds)

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(Ground cover crunches,
shovel strikes and scrapes)

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(Grunts of effort)

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(Rain patters,
Planter blows out breath)

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(Dead trees and branches snap
and crackle)

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(Shovels crunch and thud,
Planters breathe hard)

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(Shovels chop and thud,
branches snap)

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(Heavy exhalations,
dirt and rock crunch)

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(Birds chirp)

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(Footsteps crunch)

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- So, I've been thinking
about this project

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for about 20 years.

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And we're out near
Prince George right now

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in central - north central
British Columbia

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which happens to be
the last place

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that I planted trees.

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And, I mean, I have had
nightmares about tree planting,

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probably about every six months
for the last 20 years.

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And so, it's obviously
something

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that has never left me.

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Tree planting also has been
uh...

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an enormously useful training

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for so many things in my life.

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I became a documentary
photographer.

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I've photographed and worked in

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a lot of really super
challenging situations.

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I mean, I walked four days
through the mountains

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to Iraq in 2003.

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The tree planting was probably
very good training

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for doing that.

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What is the difference between
the memory of something

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and the actual reality
of something?

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And I think that's why
I wanted to revisit it.

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But, you know, physically,

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it really takes
an enormous toll.

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Yeah, so I thought, you know,
if I don't do this now

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I'm never gonna do it.

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I wanna do a good job
for the people

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who are agreeing to be part
of the project

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and that's always a huge part

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of any kind of documentary
thing

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is that you feel, okay,
now people have said yes,

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we welcome you into our world.

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You know, and I realize,

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well, we're, you know,
being welcomed,

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but we are outsiders,
definitely,

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and so, I really want to do
a good job for them.

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(Branches snap,
foliage crunches)

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So now I'm coming back
and I'm meeting people

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in these different phases
of life

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and talking to them.

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And like, I started tree
planning when I was 20

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and I planted until I was 30,

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and I changed enormously

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as an individual over that time

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in terms of feeling connected

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to a... community,

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or feeling connected
to the land,

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or wanting to work hard
with your body,

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or falling in love.

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And I just find different
people within this community

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who can speak to those
different ideas

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and bring them together.

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(Birds chirp, wind blows)

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- Nobody come to see
this landscape.

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We are the, the people
that spend the time here

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in this kind of land for hours
and hours and hours every day.

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So, we are the landscape.
(Chuckles)

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(Birds chirp,
truck rumbles)

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(Logging truck rumbles)

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(Trucks rumble)

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Tree Planter: (Over radio)
Two trucks going up

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at Farwell Canyon.

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Trucker: (Over radio)
Logger goin' down 25.

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You guys can keep on coming.

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(Trucks rumble)

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(Trucks slow down,
tires crunch)

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(Birds chirp)

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- Living in this little
like micro community

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and like getting to know
each other

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and like all contributing
and working together

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to be like a functioning
little community.

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And we all work together,

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we all like feel each other's
pain.

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We all know what the other
one's going through.

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And like, yeah.
(Chuckles)

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(Low hum of chatter
and laughter)

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Woman: Spark's like,
"I can do this!"

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Get him, Spark!
You got this!

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(Indistinct chatter)

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(Metallic clanking)

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(Low hum of chatter,
dog barks)

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(Indistinct chatter
and laughter)

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(Crows caw)

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(Vehicles rumble,
tires crunch)

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(Trucks rumble)

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Tree planter: Convoy goin' up
Farwell Canyon Road at 50.

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(Trucks rumble to a halt)

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Franco: Makes you appreciate
company.

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We spend lots of time by
ourself here in the block,

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for 8-9 hours a day.

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And after, we are in this kind
of commune,

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or this group of...
tribal commune almost.

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And I find that's really
important,

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the subculture in camp
together, be together.

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Like a subculture's defined
by a language,

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which we have,
we have our own language.

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You know, we speak,

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we have some words that are...

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related just to this job.
(Flies buzz)

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(Logging truck rumbles)

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- So yeah, I speak French,
English, Spanish and German,

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and then um...

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can read a bit of Catalan and...

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On the topic of languages,

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we were thinking about how uh...

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I know tree planting
has evolved

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its own cache of words.

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A cut block is big, a big area
in a planter's mind, right,

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and where planters have
to go back in and plant.

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The block has all this kind
of power

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and connotations around it,
you know?

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Like a tough day on the block,
big day on the block.

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Bag up - you put all the trees,
all the seedlings

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that you're taking in your bags

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and you go in, you plant,
and that's one bag up.

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Your cache is where
your trees are,

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so every time you finish
your bag up,

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you gotta go back
to your cache.

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"Darts" for cigarettes.

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When you're at the cache,
you realize that

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there's nicer things in life
than tree planting.

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You know, you have a dart
at your cache break, you know.

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So you have a little cache
party - cache bash.

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And you don't wanna cache bash
that much

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'cause you'll, you'll waste
a lot of time

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and you won't make
as much money.

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Oh, the shitters,
that's where we shit.

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We dig holes in the ground
and um...

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you shit there
while you're at that campsite

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and then you fill it in.

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There was an old word
back in the logging days

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when the guy who cut down the
most trees was a high baller,

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and so the planting industry
kind of adopted that term.

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And so, usually,
I think in a lot of camps,

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there's a mystique around being
the high baller, you know.

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Everyone wants to emulate them,
do what they--

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you know, do what they do.

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They'll see what they pack
in their lunch, you know?

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Like what they do with the
cache, that kind of thing.

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- Wow! Really?
There's no one else here

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that planted more trees
than me?

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Jose: Tree planting is tough.

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Actually, if you can endure
tree planting,

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there is not any job,
in a town, you will not do.

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- Hey, man,
how was your first year?

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- Uh, my first year was shitty.
- Oh my gosh, yeah.

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- (Laughing) It was not good,
because...

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I cried.

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People were teaching me
how to do tree planting.

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They were so fast,
so I try to be like them.

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How about yours?

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- First year? Oh man,
I was terrible.

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I was an awful rooky -

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slow, plodding,
didn't care what I hit.

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I was probably the third worst
in probably the camp.

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- So how did you become
a good planter then?

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- My first year someone told me
how to plant a lot of trees

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and I hated him for it,

00:11:55.728 --> 00:11:58.647
because all he told me to do
was go fast.

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That was his advice
and I hate him for it,

00:12:01.275 --> 00:12:04.028
but he was so damn right.

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Don't slow down,
just go fast.

00:12:07.406 --> 00:12:09.491
- Yeah.
- But that doesn't take

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a little amount of practice,
that takes a lot of work.

00:12:15.414 --> 00:12:18.167
(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

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(Cicadas buzz)

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(Tired exhales)

00:12:40.105 --> 00:12:42.441
- This is Sally,
who we've been photographing

00:12:42.441 --> 00:12:45.319
for the last maybe hour or so.

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Uh, she's a pounder.
I think she's at like 8--

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She just put in 1800 trees

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and it's only 4:00,

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and it's pretty tough land
as you can see.

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And, uh, there she goes.
Awesome.

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(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

00:13:14.264 --> 00:13:16.892
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

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(Exhales sharply,
bell jingles)

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- (Speaking French)

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(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

00:13:48.173 --> 00:13:51.051
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:13:55.722 --> 00:13:58.517
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:14:03.522 --> 00:14:05.524
- (Speaking French)

00:14:39.308 --> 00:14:41.852
Both: (Laughing)

00:14:52.779 --> 00:14:55.324
(Ground cover crunches)

00:14:55.324 --> 00:14:58.035
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:14:58.035 --> 00:15:01.413
(Shovel chops)

00:15:01.413 --> 00:15:03.415
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:15:04.833 --> 00:15:06.793
(Shovel chops and scrapes)

00:15:07.794 --> 00:15:10.130
(Shovel drags and chops)

00:15:17.179 --> 00:15:19.431
- Everyone keeps telling me
it's going to get easier.

00:15:19.431 --> 00:15:22.392
I'm still waiting for that day.

00:15:22.392 --> 00:15:25.145
(Woodpecker taps,
shovel thunks)

00:15:25.145 --> 00:15:27.606
Yeah, it's been a struggle.

00:15:27.606 --> 00:15:29.983
You start getting into what
you think is a good rhythm,

00:15:29.983 --> 00:15:32.402
and maybe it seems like
it's going really well,

00:15:32.402 --> 00:15:33.946
and then suddenly you start
hitting rocks

00:15:33.946 --> 00:15:36.448
and that's when things start
to fall apart -

00:15:36.448 --> 00:15:37.741
when it's not like quick
and easy

00:15:37.741 --> 00:15:40.035
to figure out where to put
the shovel.

00:15:40.035 --> 00:15:43.872
And I definitely seem to be
able to find all the rocks

00:15:43.872 --> 00:15:45.958
and all the bad spots so.

00:15:47.334 --> 00:15:49.336
Um, then, once that happens,

00:15:49.336 --> 00:15:52.464
it's like it just starts
to derail, I guess.

00:15:52.464 --> 00:15:54.007
(Shovel clanks)

00:15:55.342 --> 00:15:57.511
- Yeah, I mean it could be
worse. That's always the...

00:15:57.511 --> 00:15:59.471
that's always the key.
- Yeah.

00:15:59.471 --> 00:16:01.223
- It could be worse.

00:16:01.223 --> 00:16:04.059
- The, uh, the bugs are having
a good day though.

00:16:04.059 --> 00:16:06.103
- Yeah, they're havin'
a ballin' day.

00:16:06.103 --> 00:16:08.522
(Bug spray hisses)

00:16:12.526 --> 00:16:14.319
You're just planting along

00:16:14.319 --> 00:16:18.240
and you have this constant
like bzz-bzz-bzz-bzz.

00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.784
(Flies buzz)

00:16:20.784 --> 00:16:22.995
(Spray hisses)

00:16:26.206 --> 00:16:28.208
(Rollicking blues music plays)

00:16:45.684 --> 00:16:48.854
- Oh yeah, Deet. Powerful.
- Feels good.

00:16:52.858 --> 00:16:54.860
(Flies buzz)

00:16:56.570 --> 00:16:58.447
(Birds chirp)

00:17:00.449 --> 00:17:02.117
- Yeah, it's been...

00:17:02.117 --> 00:17:04.161
I think it's one of the hardest
things I've done.

00:17:04.161 --> 00:17:05.912
And I just remember sitting
in the truck

00:17:05.912 --> 00:17:07.706
thinking, like,
"What have I done?

00:17:07.706 --> 00:17:09.708
What have I gotten myself into?"

00:17:09.708 --> 00:17:11.710
I was just like,
"I just wanna go home."

00:17:11.710 --> 00:17:13.712
- Hasn't even started yet
and you're like, "I'm done!"

00:17:13.712 --> 00:17:15.714
It'd be like a two-hour
truck ride

00:17:15.714 --> 00:17:17.549
and the camp friends
talking to me.

00:17:17.549 --> 00:17:19.468
I'm just there like,
"I just need to go home.

00:17:19.468 --> 00:17:21.553
Like I can't be here."
- The question is,

00:17:21.553 --> 00:17:23.430
are you coming back?
Both: (Laughing)

00:17:24.556 --> 00:17:26.433
- Oh yeah,
so it's pretty funny.

00:17:26.433 --> 00:17:28.018
Like when I came back

00:17:28.018 --> 00:17:30.062
like the first thing that
a lot of people said was,

00:17:30.062 --> 00:17:31.897
"I can't believe you're back,"

00:17:31.897 --> 00:17:34.733
and you know,
"Why would you come back?"

00:17:34.733 --> 00:17:37.944
And in the off season,
I don't know,

00:17:37.944 --> 00:17:40.447
you kind of forget about
all the bad things

00:17:40.447 --> 00:17:42.491
and start remembering
all the good.

00:17:42.491 --> 00:17:45.619
And even the bad things
kind of become funny.

00:17:45.619 --> 00:17:48.914
So, in this season,
I've gotten, I've gotten tendo,

00:17:48.914 --> 00:17:52.459
second degree burns
on over 20% of my body,

00:17:52.459 --> 00:17:55.754
back spasms so bad
that my leg is jerking,

00:17:55.754 --> 00:17:58.590
and my hip chafe
has become infected.

00:17:58.590 --> 00:17:59.966
(Flies buzz)

00:17:59.966 --> 00:18:03.220
I kind of felt like I had to
come back and do it again

00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:06.556
and do it a better way
than I did last year.

00:18:06.556 --> 00:18:09.476
So it's kind of like I had
to redeem myself.

00:18:09.476 --> 00:18:12.521
And then also I, you know,
need to pay rent.

00:18:15.315 --> 00:18:18.318
A lot of people don't really
understand what planting is.

00:18:18.318 --> 00:18:21.822
In my first year,
when I planted 700 trees,

00:18:21.822 --> 00:18:24.991
I told my Dad,
like I called him on a day off,

00:18:24.991 --> 00:18:27.869
and he was like, "Oh my God,
like that's amazing!"

00:18:27.869 --> 00:18:30.789
It's like, "No, like that's not
even minimum wage."

00:18:30.789 --> 00:18:32.624
And, you know, he goes,

00:18:32.624 --> 00:18:34.960
"There's no way you could plant
more than 700 trees."

00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.170
And it's like,
"Well, I have to."

00:18:39.506 --> 00:18:41.925
Last year I was worst planter.

00:18:41.925 --> 00:18:44.970
This year I'm the most mediocre
planter.

00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:48.807
Definitely been balled by some
rookies this year, which hurt,

00:18:48.807 --> 00:18:51.101
'cause I thought I was gonna
come back

00:18:51.101 --> 00:18:54.104
and just plant 2,000 trees
right off the bat.

00:18:54.104 --> 00:18:56.690
And that's obviously not
realistic to think of.

00:19:01.194 --> 00:19:02.821
It's kind of frustrating.

00:19:02.821 --> 00:19:06.533
It's also nice to see other
people succeed at their goals.

00:19:06.533 --> 00:19:10.328
But it definitely sucks
when you get balled by people

00:19:10.328 --> 00:19:13.540
who have been planting
for like a couple of weeks

00:19:14.708 --> 00:19:16.668
and they're already better
than you.

00:19:16.668 --> 00:19:18.920
But I'm getting there.
I'm getting better.

00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.257
It's slow. I'm a slow learner,
for sure,

00:19:22.257 --> 00:19:24.342
but it takes time, I guess.

00:19:24.342 --> 00:19:26.344
Like this is kind of like
my second year

00:19:26.344 --> 00:19:28.013
of being a rookie, I feel like.

00:19:29.014 --> 00:19:32.601
But I love the look on people's
faces at the end of the day

00:19:32.601 --> 00:19:35.187
when everyone is talking
about numbers

00:19:35.187 --> 00:19:36.855
and then I just drop it in.

00:19:36.855 --> 00:19:38.857
I'm like, "Well, I hit
the bare minimum today,"

00:19:38.857 --> 00:19:42.444
and it kind of releases
that air of competitivity.

00:19:42.444 --> 00:19:45.864
And it's just nice to kind of
see people's faces perk up

00:19:45.864 --> 00:19:48.366
'cause maybe they didn't have
a good day either.

00:19:48.366 --> 00:19:51.036
And it's like, "Well,
I get to treat myself today

00:19:51.036 --> 00:19:53.497
'cause I did the bare minimum"
and stuff like that

00:19:53.497 --> 00:19:57.125
and people kind of realize that
it's not the end of the world

00:19:57.125 --> 00:19:59.961
if today you didn't have
a great day.

00:19:59.961 --> 00:20:01.880
(Flies buzz)

00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.882
Every time I wanna go home,

00:20:03.882 --> 00:20:07.594
I realize that I'm not really
qualified for any, any job

00:20:07.594 --> 00:20:09.554
that pays above minimum wage.

00:20:09.554 --> 00:20:11.306
I count my numbers
at the end of the day

00:20:11.306 --> 00:20:14.309
and I realize I made more
than minimum wage.

00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.438
So it's...
it might feel like I suck,

00:20:18.438 --> 00:20:22.275
but I'm still making more than
I would in a retail position,

00:20:23.276 --> 00:20:26.488
and I'm outside doing it,
which is so nice.

00:20:29.032 --> 00:20:31.993
Maybe I don't plant a lot
of trees every day,

00:20:31.993 --> 00:20:35.747
but I'm here, I'm putting
everything I have in here.

00:20:35.747 --> 00:20:38.750
And I don't see it as
I have bad luck.

00:20:39.751 --> 00:20:42.671
It's just I go through life
differently than other people.

00:20:42.671 --> 00:20:46.049
And it's not always the right
path that I take,

00:20:47.217 --> 00:20:48.802
but I get there, you know?

00:20:48.802 --> 00:20:51.054
And I reach the same goals
that other people reach,

00:20:51.054 --> 00:20:53.557
just on a different time scale.

00:20:53.557 --> 00:20:55.934
(Shovel thunks and scrapes)

00:20:59.229 --> 00:21:01.648
(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

00:21:02.649 --> 00:21:04.359
I still cry a lot,

00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.320
but it's definitely made me
stronger emotionally.

00:21:07.320 --> 00:21:09.614
I definitely am able to cope
with it

00:21:09.614 --> 00:21:12.659
and kind of remember that
it's just planting.

00:21:12.659 --> 00:21:14.619
It's not the end of the world.

00:21:14.619 --> 00:21:16.663
And sometimes it feels that way
and it's crazy

00:21:16.663 --> 00:21:18.748
'cause all you're doing
is opening a hole

00:21:18.748 --> 00:21:20.083
and putting a tree in.

00:21:20.083 --> 00:21:21.960
But it's like,
I think, emotionally,

00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:24.504
one of the hardest jobs
people will ever do.

00:21:24.504 --> 00:21:26.339
And people ask you, you know,

00:21:26.339 --> 00:21:28.800
"Oh, are you havin' fun savin'
the planet and stuff?"

00:21:28.800 --> 00:21:30.719
And it's like, "No."

00:21:31.761 --> 00:21:33.513
No, I think this is gruelling

00:21:33.513 --> 00:21:35.599
and I wanna go home most days.

00:21:43.732 --> 00:21:46.067
(Cap rattles)

00:21:47.986 --> 00:21:49.988
(Flies buzz)

00:21:55.744 --> 00:21:57.704
Cam: Your piece is your
personal slice of land

00:21:57.704 --> 00:21:59.539
you're responsible for planting
over the next day

00:21:59.539 --> 00:22:00.999
or several days.

00:22:00.999 --> 00:22:03.752
You cut your piece by flagging
a boundary line into the block.

00:22:03.752 --> 00:22:05.253
You're responsible
for the quality

00:22:05.253 --> 00:22:07.797
and density of all the trees
in your piece.

00:22:07.797 --> 00:22:09.424
(Shovel chops)

00:22:09.424 --> 00:22:12.761
Sheena: Yeah, that's a friggin'
art form - cutting a line in.

00:22:19.100 --> 00:22:21.019
The crew has to stand there
and they'll be like,

00:22:21.019 --> 00:22:23.146
"Start here." And they're like,
"You see that tall tree

00:22:23.146 --> 00:22:25.065
with like the green leaves?"

00:22:25.065 --> 00:22:28.443
And you're like,
"I see fuckin' 500 of them."

00:22:28.443 --> 00:22:30.779
(Laughs)
And then they're like, "No,

00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:33.031
but that one with like
the little red bush."

00:22:33.031 --> 00:22:35.200
And then you're like, "Yeah,"
'cause you think you see it.

00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:36.910
You're like,
"Yeah, yeah, I got it."

00:22:36.910 --> 00:22:39.037
"Go towards that one,
high flag everything."

00:22:39.037 --> 00:22:40.789
So you're like, "Yeah."

00:22:40.789 --> 00:22:42.332
You're looking,
you're flagging,

00:22:42.332 --> 00:22:44.042
you're looking
and you're flagging,

00:22:44.042 --> 00:22:46.044
and you're looking
and suddenly you're like,

00:22:46.044 --> 00:22:48.088
"Uh-oh, where did it go?"
- (Laughing)

00:22:48.088 --> 00:22:50.590
- "Oh no, I lost it!"
- You got too close.

00:22:55.512 --> 00:22:57.138
Cam: Throwing a plot
is how you make sure

00:22:57.138 --> 00:22:59.057
the trees are being planted
properly.

00:23:00.058 --> 00:23:01.893
You punch your shovel into
the ground

00:23:01.893 --> 00:23:03.186
and then you walk around
in a circle

00:23:03.186 --> 00:23:05.230
and you count the trees and...

00:23:05.230 --> 00:23:07.273
check the trees that are
in that circle.

00:23:09.776 --> 00:23:11.319
They have to be planted
perfectly

00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:13.154
or you have to go back
and fix it.

00:23:19.369 --> 00:23:22.080
It can't be too deep.
It can't be too shallow.

00:23:22.080 --> 00:23:24.916
It can't be in ground
that's too wet or too dry.

00:23:26.835 --> 00:23:28.253
It's gotta be just right.

00:23:59.951 --> 00:24:02.454
Tree planting is piecework,

00:24:02.454 --> 00:24:04.664
paid cents per tree,

00:24:06.416 --> 00:24:09.127
depending on the difficulty
of the land.

00:24:17.927 --> 00:24:19.637
You keep track of the number
of trees you plant

00:24:19.637 --> 00:24:21.723
in a tally book.

00:24:21.723 --> 00:24:23.391
(Rain patters heavily)

00:24:25.852 --> 00:24:27.896
(Scribbling)

00:24:29.481 --> 00:24:31.691
(Keys click)

00:24:36.488 --> 00:24:38.490
(Pencil scribbles)

00:25:16.611 --> 00:25:20.198
(Wind gusts)

00:25:26.204 --> 00:25:29.207
(Wind gusts)

00:25:35.213 --> 00:25:38.216
- It's pretty dangerous for
tree planters to come out here.

00:25:38.216 --> 00:25:41.761
And I know that some effort
is put into

00:25:41.761 --> 00:25:44.222
making the roads safe
and accessible, but uh...

00:25:45.223 --> 00:25:48.518
it's crazy, slippery,

00:25:48.518 --> 00:25:50.687
dangerous, dangerous roads

00:25:50.687 --> 00:25:52.772
just to get access to these...

00:25:52.772 --> 00:25:56.860
these incredible remote
logged areas

00:25:56.860 --> 00:25:58.736
up in the mountains.

00:26:00.363 --> 00:26:02.407
Cam: So the overflow is a block

00:26:02.407 --> 00:26:04.868
that wasn't intended to be
planted that year,

00:26:04.868 --> 00:26:07.871
but if the trees from the other
blocks don't all fit,

00:26:07.871 --> 00:26:10.665
they will usually go
to an overflow block

00:26:10.665 --> 00:26:12.500
to finish up the contract.

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:14.335
- Hi Rita, you gotta back up.

00:26:14.335 --> 00:26:16.838
- Okay.
- I gotta go to the overflow.

00:26:16.838 --> 00:26:19.591
- Oh, you guys are going
to the overflow.

00:26:19.591 --> 00:26:21.593
Oh, you're kidding.

00:27:31.704 --> 00:27:33.623
There's one word for good land,
which is cream,

00:27:33.623 --> 00:27:35.333
and then there's a million
words for bad land.

00:27:35.333 --> 00:27:38.002
So, shit or shwack, garbage.

00:27:38.002 --> 00:27:40.088
Shnarb, I think, is probably
one of the most important ones.

00:27:40.088 --> 00:27:42.423
It's like big piles
of sticks and brush.

00:27:42.423 --> 00:27:44.676
Duffy when it's all kind
of like needles

00:27:44.676 --> 00:27:46.219
and it's not real soil,

00:27:46.219 --> 00:27:47.887
and you have to like punch
through it.

00:27:47.887 --> 00:27:49.681
A slash pile is basically
when there's...

00:27:49.681 --> 00:27:52.183
a big amalgamation of logs
that have been leftover

00:27:52.183 --> 00:27:54.102
and weren't taken by
the logging company.

00:27:54.102 --> 00:27:55.520
And they can look quite
imposing

00:27:55.520 --> 00:27:57.522
and sometimes they can block
the entrance to your piece.

00:27:57.522 --> 00:27:59.941
Slash is typically not
a planter's friend.

00:27:59.941 --> 00:28:01.693
Usually, you have
to climb over it,

00:28:01.693 --> 00:28:03.778
crawl through it,
push it to the side.

00:28:03.778 --> 00:28:05.363
It stands between you and...

00:28:05.363 --> 00:28:07.365
and moving through your land
efficiently.

00:28:07.365 --> 00:28:10.243
Screefing is when you like kick
off all the dirt and dust

00:28:10.243 --> 00:28:11.619
on top of the ground

00:28:11.619 --> 00:28:14.122
and get down to that sweet,
creamy mineral soil.

00:28:18.042 --> 00:28:20.044
(Birds chirp)

00:28:23.798 --> 00:28:26.718
- Welcome to the shovel show
with Paddy.

00:28:29.554 --> 00:28:32.807
(Birds chirp,
shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:28:46.237 --> 00:28:48.698
They look like garden tools,
but they're not.

00:29:18.186 --> 00:29:19.437
These shovels are weapons,

00:29:19.437 --> 00:29:22.065
they're toys, money makers.

00:29:22.065 --> 00:29:25.943
Go right through, right back,
tree, out.

00:29:25.943 --> 00:29:28.821
There is no hit-hit.

00:29:28.821 --> 00:29:31.199
There's no like wiggle-wiggle
around in there

00:29:31.199 --> 00:29:32.617
to make it bigger.

00:29:32.617 --> 00:29:36.079
It's a huge fuckin' hole
that this thing makes.

00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.456
Such a nice grip,
it's incredible.

00:29:41.709 --> 00:29:43.795
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:30:10.321 --> 00:30:13.366
So, this is my baby.
I hardly ever use it

00:30:13.366 --> 00:30:15.159
and no one will ever
touch that

00:30:15.159 --> 00:30:17.120
because I love that thing
so much.

00:30:19.330 --> 00:30:22.208
I love that shovel.
I love all my shovels.

00:30:31.175 --> 00:30:33.177
(Wind blows)

00:30:36.097 --> 00:30:38.349
- You're out in the block
all by yourself

00:30:38.349 --> 00:30:40.017
and you don't see anybody
all day.

00:30:40.017 --> 00:30:43.020
All you have are your trees
and your land.

00:30:43.020 --> 00:30:45.106
And I always thought
that everyone else

00:30:45.106 --> 00:30:46.899
was planting more than me

00:30:46.899 --> 00:30:48.693
and going faster than me.

00:30:48.693 --> 00:30:50.862
And that would push me
and I would just be like,

00:30:50.862 --> 00:30:52.488
"You're too slow,
you're too slow.

00:30:52.488 --> 00:30:54.282
Everybody's ahead of you."

00:30:54.282 --> 00:30:56.075
And I would just like work
and work and work

00:30:56.075 --> 00:30:58.035
and at the end of the day
I would feel like

00:30:58.035 --> 00:31:01.164
I had just fucking blown it
and I was a complete loser.

00:31:01.164 --> 00:31:04.041
And then I would go home
or get on the bus

00:31:04.041 --> 00:31:06.127
and find out that, you know,
not only--

00:31:06.127 --> 00:31:08.880
like maybe I'd even highballed
the camp.

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.257
And it's a strange kind
of motivating thing,

00:31:11.257 --> 00:31:14.051
the sense that you're never,
you're no--

00:31:14.051 --> 00:31:15.720
you're never doing good enough.

00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:17.555
So there's always the sense
of urgency

00:31:17.555 --> 00:31:20.558
and you always have in your gut
this kind of feeling

00:31:20.558 --> 00:31:22.935
that you have to work harder
and better,

00:31:22.935 --> 00:31:26.397
and you have to be more
prepared for every moment,

00:31:26.397 --> 00:31:29.609
and it's one tree at a time -

00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:33.321
you keep going regardless
of feeling discouraged.

00:31:33.321 --> 00:31:35.364
You just can't let yourself
think about that.

00:31:35.364 --> 00:31:37.950
It's just the next thing,
plant the next tree.

00:31:37.950 --> 00:31:40.578
And at the end of the day,
you've planted all your bags,

00:31:40.578 --> 00:31:44.457
you've filled in some land,
you've made some money

00:31:44.457 --> 00:31:47.418
and you know, you plant trees
for ten years

00:31:47.418 --> 00:31:49.712
and you've planted a forest.

00:31:49.712 --> 00:31:53.132
(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

00:31:56.219 --> 00:31:58.346
(Footsteps splash)

00:32:02.475 --> 00:32:05.645
(Ground cover snaps
and crackles)

00:32:09.857 --> 00:32:12.777
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:32:18.741 --> 00:32:22.161
(Branches snap and crackle,
shovel strikes and scrapes)

00:32:30.378 --> 00:32:33.214
- There are so many powerful
women here that just do it

00:32:33.214 --> 00:32:35.299
and they rock it,
and like they highball,

00:32:35.299 --> 00:32:37.260
and no one can argue with that.

00:32:37.260 --> 00:32:40.471
Like you can't take that away
from us.

00:32:40.471 --> 00:32:42.431
And I think that that's
really important

00:32:42.431 --> 00:32:44.433
because I think you'll go a lot
of places in the real world

00:32:44.433 --> 00:32:46.435
and they'll be like, "Oh,
she's only given an opportunity

00:32:46.435 --> 00:32:47.937
because she's a woman."

00:32:47.937 --> 00:32:50.439
But here, it's like women excel
and we're everywhere.

00:32:50.439 --> 00:32:53.109
We're in management,
we're like planters,

00:32:53.109 --> 00:32:54.986
we're deliverers,
we're checkers

00:32:54.986 --> 00:32:58.197
and we're just killin' it
all around and it's ours.

00:32:59.198 --> 00:33:00.658
- The camp needs us.
- Yeah, absolutely.

00:33:00.658 --> 00:33:03.911
- Like I think we really...
yeah, we're needed.

00:33:06.664 --> 00:33:09.250
We're cowgirls.
Like we literally are.

00:33:09.250 --> 00:33:11.836
We're doing a job that
for so long

00:33:11.836 --> 00:33:13.838
has just been dominated by men.

00:33:13.838 --> 00:33:17.258
And I think like the fact
that my crew and your crew's

00:33:17.258 --> 00:33:20.303
just predominantly women,
it's so special,

00:33:20.303 --> 00:33:22.888
and we can talk about
whatever we want.

00:33:22.888 --> 00:33:24.932
Like we relate to each other
so easily

00:33:24.932 --> 00:33:29.228
simply because we have
the equal struggle

00:33:29.228 --> 00:33:33.024
of like being a woman,
and like that's pretty freeing.

00:33:55.379 --> 00:33:57.757
- 70 percent pine.
- Ewww!

00:33:57.757 --> 00:34:00.760
- 20 percent spruce.
Crew: Woo!

00:34:00.760 --> 00:34:02.470
- 10 percent fir.

00:34:02.470 --> 00:34:04.722
Crew: Ooooh.
(Laughing)

00:34:05.723 --> 00:34:08.726
("Head Over Heels"
by Blue Rodeo plays)

00:34:19.403 --> 00:34:22.448
♪ The sun breaks
and I can't wait ♪

00:34:22.448 --> 00:34:24.950
♪ 'Til I'll be on my way again ♪

00:34:25.951 --> 00:34:28.871
♪ I'm sick and tired
of waiting ♪

00:34:28.871 --> 00:34:31.582
♪ With nothing to do ♪

00:34:33.417 --> 00:34:36.796
♪ Watching the rain through
a crack in the window ♪

00:34:36.796 --> 00:34:39.924
♪ It's the little things
get you through ♪

00:34:39.924 --> 00:34:42.843
♪ Like the same sun rising
on me ♪

00:34:42.843 --> 00:34:44.887
♪ Is rising over you ♪

00:34:47.014 --> 00:34:50.476
♪ Oh-oh-oh walking
and talking ♪

00:34:50.476 --> 00:34:52.895
♪ Like birds in the sky ♪

00:34:54.522 --> 00:34:57.525
♪ You tell your secrets ♪

00:34:57.525 --> 00:35:00.486
♪ How gracefully you lie ♪

00:35:00.486 --> 00:35:01.654
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪

00:35:01.654 --> 00:35:04.490
♪ That's the way
you come to me ♪

00:35:04.490 --> 00:35:06.409
♪ I'm head over heels ♪

00:35:06.409 --> 00:35:08.619
♪ And I'm always gonna be ♪

00:35:08.619 --> 00:35:09.995
♪ That's okay, ♪

00:35:09.995 --> 00:35:12.790
♪ I love the way you
come to me ♪

00:35:30.266 --> 00:35:32.268
(Birds chirp)

00:35:40.359 --> 00:35:42.194
- I mean,
the first three days were...

00:35:43.696 --> 00:35:46.699
yeah, I cried. (Laughs)
I cried a lot.

00:35:46.699 --> 00:35:50.536
It was usually, you know,
after they would leave,

00:35:50.536 --> 00:35:52.580
Um, it was just like, fuck,

00:35:52.580 --> 00:35:55.166
I, I, I had no idea how

00:35:55.166 --> 00:35:57.209
we we're gonna have dinner
ready for tonight,

00:35:57.209 --> 00:35:59.837
let alone how I'm gonna be able
to do this

00:35:59.837 --> 00:36:02.506
for the entire season.
It was, it was crazy.

00:36:04.258 --> 00:36:07.595
I think the biggest thing
from the get-go is the volume.

00:36:07.595 --> 00:36:09.513
That's, that's what
you figure out first.

00:36:09.513 --> 00:36:11.182
Um, 'cause tree planters...

00:36:11.182 --> 00:36:13.184
so say you're cooking
for 91 people,

00:36:13.184 --> 00:36:14.852
but you're not cooking
for 91 people.

00:36:14.852 --> 00:36:17.354
You're closer, you're cooking
for more like 200.

00:36:17.354 --> 00:36:19.523
Um, tree planters eat

00:36:19.523 --> 00:36:21.692
at least twice the amount

00:36:21.692 --> 00:36:23.444
as your average person,

00:36:23.444 --> 00:36:26.614
and getting used to that
was the biggest thing.

00:36:26.614 --> 00:36:29.450
Uh, so, I mean, the first,
the first week,

00:36:29.450 --> 00:36:31.869
yeah, I would go to bed
and just...

00:36:31.869 --> 00:36:34.079
just lay there in the dark

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:36.165
and just like really...

00:36:36.165 --> 00:36:38.042
I really wasn't,
really wasn't sure

00:36:38.042 --> 00:36:39.627
if I was gonna be able
to do it.

00:36:39.627 --> 00:36:41.295
I really, I really didn't,
I really wasn't sure.

00:36:41.295 --> 00:36:43.756
And I, I would usually...
usually cry once at night

00:36:43.756 --> 00:36:45.007
and then once again
in the morning.

00:36:45.007 --> 00:36:47.092
Me and Graham would just look
at each other and...

00:36:47.092 --> 00:36:49.678
just put my head in my hands
and be like, "Holy fuck.

00:36:49.678 --> 00:36:51.680
What just happened?"

00:36:52.765 --> 00:36:54.642
This whole job is mountains
and valleys.

00:36:54.642 --> 00:36:55.893
It's an emotional roller
coaster.

00:36:55.893 --> 00:36:57.978
You know, you just push
through, you just push.

00:36:57.978 --> 00:37:00.648
You just, you just focus on
that, that next hour,

00:37:00.648 --> 00:37:02.650
that next minute,
whatever you're doing,

00:37:02.650 --> 00:37:04.068
that one task.

00:37:04.068 --> 00:37:06.028
One at a time,
one step at a time.

00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:13.244
(Indistinct chatter)

00:37:14.703 --> 00:37:17.248
(Laughter and chatter)

00:37:26.674 --> 00:37:27.925
(Laughing)

00:37:38.561 --> 00:37:40.187
- So I'm a registered nurse.

00:37:40.187 --> 00:37:43.607
I am sort of like a first aid
attendant in camp.

00:37:43.607 --> 00:37:46.652
My job is a lot of basically
tending to

00:37:46.652 --> 00:37:50.197
any planting injury or wound
that comes in the door.

00:37:51.282 --> 00:37:54.493
I'm sort of the person that
people come to see about it

00:37:54.493 --> 00:37:57.538
and I do my best to deal
with it.

00:37:57.538 --> 00:37:59.456
It's a lot of physio taping

00:37:59.456 --> 00:38:01.834
and lot of wounds,
(Laughs)

00:38:01.834 --> 00:38:04.670
open wounds.
Like a lot of wounds.

00:38:04.670 --> 00:38:08.090
A lot of Polysporin
and a lot of bandaging.

00:38:10.092 --> 00:38:12.094
It gets pretty nasty.

00:38:12.094 --> 00:38:14.680
And tree planters
are definitely like...

00:38:14.680 --> 00:38:15.973
a special, special,

00:38:17.016 --> 00:38:19.727
resilient, like gritty
bunch of people.

00:38:21.395 --> 00:38:23.689
- You really have to...

00:38:23.689 --> 00:38:26.317
learn to respect
and trust your body,

00:38:26.317 --> 00:38:28.235
and you have to take care
of yourself.

00:38:29.987 --> 00:38:31.989
Tree planting is like
a combination

00:38:31.989 --> 00:38:34.408
between industrial labour
and extreme sports.

00:38:45.002 --> 00:38:47.212
A lot of people get really
frustrated, I think,

00:38:47.212 --> 00:38:50.132
when they're injured
and their body isn't doing,

00:38:50.132 --> 00:38:52.593
quite what they want it to do.

00:38:53.594 --> 00:38:56.013
And so, I think that's where
that frustration

00:38:56.013 --> 00:38:58.515
and just the hate comes in.

00:38:58.515 --> 00:39:00.851
And like I think it's just a...

00:39:00.851 --> 00:39:02.728
a lesson in self-respect.

00:39:05.189 --> 00:39:06.899
- (Speaking French)

00:41:06.560 --> 00:41:08.187
Katie: People want
to challenge themselves,

00:41:08.187 --> 00:41:12.024
challenge their bodies,
and so they push themselves.

00:41:12.024 --> 00:41:13.692
And it's insanity

00:41:14.735 --> 00:41:16.320
and, um,

00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:18.989
self, self-loathing maybe.
(Chuckles)

00:41:18.989 --> 00:41:21.825
It's definitely a struggle
for a lot of people.

00:41:21.825 --> 00:41:23.327
It's like a love-hate
relationship

00:41:23.327 --> 00:41:25.329
because your body's your tool.

00:41:25.329 --> 00:41:28.373
You're using it to make money,
but - and do your job -

00:41:28.373 --> 00:41:32.336
but sometimes it's fighting
against you out there.

00:41:35.380 --> 00:41:37.174
- (Speaking French)

00:42:03.909 --> 00:42:05.953
(Wind gusts)

00:42:11.875 --> 00:42:13.961
(Mosquitoes whine)

00:42:20.217 --> 00:42:23.053
(Rain patters,
bird chirps)

00:42:28.058 --> 00:42:30.310
(Birds chirp,
woodpecker taps)

00:42:33.397 --> 00:42:36.108
(Wind gusts,
birds chirp)

00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:43.991
(Shovel strikes)

00:42:48.579 --> 00:42:51.373
(Thunder rumbles distantly)

00:42:55.252 --> 00:42:57.004
- This is a job that hurts

00:42:57.004 --> 00:42:58.839
and no one's making you be here.

00:42:58.839 --> 00:43:01.425
So, you have to like it
a little bit.

00:43:03.969 --> 00:43:06.054
People say all the time, like
you can't be a tree planter

00:43:06.054 --> 00:43:08.265
unless you kind of like pain.

00:43:08.265 --> 00:43:10.851
There's this kind of idea
around, um,

00:43:10.851 --> 00:43:13.145
like planting without gloves
is more hardcore,

00:43:13.145 --> 00:43:16.064
and like that kind of pain,
like people like that.

00:43:16.064 --> 00:43:17.608
Like when you get really cut up

00:43:17.608 --> 00:43:19.818
you're kind of proud of it.

00:43:19.818 --> 00:43:21.278
It can be healthy
and it cannot be healthy.

00:43:21.278 --> 00:43:23.280
I think that also comes
with knowing your body,

00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.617
knowing when something hurts
too much.

00:43:27.618 --> 00:43:29.453
There's a difference between
being in pain

00:43:29.453 --> 00:43:31.288
and hitting your limit.

00:43:31.288 --> 00:43:33.081
That's like something
that rookies

00:43:33.081 --> 00:43:35.167
have to learn really fast,

00:43:35.167 --> 00:43:36.710
because then you get injured.

00:43:36.710 --> 00:43:39.379
You have to know what kind of
pain that your body can take.

00:43:41.965 --> 00:43:43.967
Well, I started self-harming
when I was pretty young

00:43:43.967 --> 00:43:45.552
for about ten years.

00:43:45.552 --> 00:43:48.513
It kinda peaked
when I was 16 or 17.

00:43:50.057 --> 00:43:51.600
Everything is so overwhelming

00:43:51.600 --> 00:43:53.977
that you feel like you have
no other way of doing things.

00:43:53.977 --> 00:43:55.979
I didn't really think of it
as a problem at the time

00:43:55.979 --> 00:43:57.981
because I was always really
functional.

00:43:57.981 --> 00:43:59.399
I was always working
really hard.

00:43:59.399 --> 00:44:01.568
And if you didn't know me
it wouldn't look like

00:44:01.568 --> 00:44:03.528
there was very much
that was wrong with me,

00:44:03.528 --> 00:44:05.322
which is ridiculous.

00:44:08.408 --> 00:44:11.662
It took me a long time to get
comfortable wearing a t-shirt.

00:44:12.788 --> 00:44:14.831
People don't really know
how to react.

00:44:14.831 --> 00:44:16.708
Um, people usually
don't ask me about it

00:44:16.708 --> 00:44:19.086
because people usually
don't know how.

00:44:20.879 --> 00:44:23.173
And I was diagnosed with
borderline personality disorder

00:44:23.173 --> 00:44:24.633
around that time,

00:44:24.633 --> 00:44:27.511
which is definitely interesting
to have planting.

00:44:27.511 --> 00:44:30.889
Because everyone talks about
the highs and lows of planting,

00:44:30.889 --> 00:44:32.724
how one of the things
that they like

00:44:32.724 --> 00:44:35.894
and they find really refreshing
is like you see everyone

00:44:35.894 --> 00:44:37.980
at every point in their day
and in their life,

00:44:37.980 --> 00:44:40.440
like their highest highs
and their lowest lows.

00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:42.734
And that's not something that
they get anywhere else,

00:44:42.734 --> 00:44:44.820
whereas, for me,
I feel that every day,

00:44:44.820 --> 00:44:46.655
it doesn't matter where I am.

00:44:47.990 --> 00:44:50.117
For people who deal with
depression and anxiety,

00:44:50.117 --> 00:44:52.911
like problems feel so big
and vague.

00:44:53.954 --> 00:44:55.956
Sometimes it's easy
for small problems

00:44:55.956 --> 00:44:58.625
to feel like the end
of the world.

00:44:58.625 --> 00:45:00.877
And tree planting is, I think,
really good for that

00:45:00.877 --> 00:45:02.921
because your problems
are right in front of you.

00:45:02.921 --> 00:45:05.007
Okay, the land is bad.
Okay, there's a lot of slash.

00:45:05.007 --> 00:45:06.925
Okay, my bags are heavy.

00:45:06.925 --> 00:45:09.678
Like all of your problems
are so...

00:45:09.678 --> 00:45:11.388
I don't wanna say easy
to deal with,

00:45:11.388 --> 00:45:13.265
but they're right in front
of you

00:45:13.265 --> 00:45:14.975
and, at the end of the day,
they're gone.

00:45:14.975 --> 00:45:16.935
And I think that's almost
refreshing for people

00:45:16.935 --> 00:45:19.396
whose problems never go away

00:45:19.396 --> 00:45:21.523
is you get to finish a day
and it was--

00:45:21.523 --> 00:45:23.150
even if it was really hard

00:45:23.150 --> 00:45:25.027
and even if you had
the worst day ever,

00:45:25.027 --> 00:45:26.862
it ends.

00:45:26.862 --> 00:45:29.072
For, I think
for any young person

00:45:29.072 --> 00:45:31.700
spending eight plus hours a day

00:45:31.700 --> 00:45:33.910
every single day for months

00:45:33.910 --> 00:45:37.080
in your own head
can be very valuable.

00:45:37.080 --> 00:45:39.249
Um, I think we live in
an environment

00:45:39.249 --> 00:45:41.418
that's so fast paced,

00:45:41.418 --> 00:45:43.462
and so overwhelming

00:45:43.462 --> 00:45:46.423
that we don't get to think
a lot about like our lives.

00:45:46.423 --> 00:45:48.258
In your twenties,
like you don't know

00:45:48.258 --> 00:45:49.760
what the fuck is going on.

00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:51.970
Like everyone is so confused
all the time

00:45:51.970 --> 00:45:54.723
and I think everyone pretends
to know what they're doing

00:45:54.723 --> 00:45:56.641
and tells people they know
what they're doing,

00:45:56.641 --> 00:45:58.226
but like nobody knows
what they're doing.

00:45:58.226 --> 00:45:59.311
You don't know
what you're doing.

00:45:59.311 --> 00:46:01.938
You just hope that
it works out.

00:46:01.938 --> 00:46:03.940
Tree planting has definitely
made me

00:46:03.940 --> 00:46:05.817
a more interesting person

00:46:05.817 --> 00:46:07.778
and a better person

00:46:07.778 --> 00:46:10.447
because you just have
so much time

00:46:10.447 --> 00:46:12.616
to think about the things
that you're doing,

00:46:12.616 --> 00:46:15.118
and I don't think a lot
of people get that time.

00:46:51.822 --> 00:46:55.325
- My first year of planting
was 1985.

00:46:55.325 --> 00:46:59.246
I'm 60 years old...

00:46:59.246 --> 00:47:00.622
and uh...

00:47:02.374 --> 00:47:04.668
I'm starting to slow down a bit.

00:47:04.668 --> 00:47:07.254
My knees are starting to hurt
more than they used to.

00:47:15.887 --> 00:47:19.057
- I'm in my third season.
My first season was 2014.

00:47:19.057 --> 00:47:21.059
Uh, the old man brought me out.

00:47:21.059 --> 00:47:22.769
Yeah. (Laughs)

00:47:23.854 --> 00:47:26.273
(Thunder rumbles)

00:47:30.026 --> 00:47:33.864
The hardest thing about
working with him is...

00:47:33.864 --> 00:47:35.532
(Mosquito whines)

00:47:36.575 --> 00:47:39.536
that he's got like
an expectation for you

00:47:40.537 --> 00:47:42.706
that more than anyone else

00:47:42.706 --> 00:47:45.792
you want to actually
live up to.

00:47:45.792 --> 00:47:48.003
But at the same time
it can also be very,

00:47:48.003 --> 00:47:49.754
very frustrating,

00:47:49.754 --> 00:47:51.548
like especially
when I was starting out.

00:47:53.550 --> 00:47:55.552
Like there were times
when I probably wanted

00:47:55.552 --> 00:47:57.179
to throw my shovel at him,
but...

00:47:57.179 --> 00:47:59.556
just kept going.
(Laughs)

00:48:03.268 --> 00:48:05.312
(Camera shutter
snaps repeatedly)

00:48:05.312 --> 00:48:07.814
- This is a pretty meditative
job.

00:48:07.814 --> 00:48:11.151
You learn how to empty out
your mind,

00:48:11.151 --> 00:48:13.445
and then, if you achieve that,

00:48:13.445 --> 00:48:16.406
you can experience a great deal
of peace and quiet.

00:48:17.949 --> 00:48:20.076
There's just a joy to it.

00:48:25.081 --> 00:48:27.083
(Water flows)

00:48:43.683 --> 00:48:46.811
- Pretty much every major life
decision that we've made

00:48:46.811 --> 00:48:48.772
we've made like partner
planting...

00:48:48.772 --> 00:48:50.607
- Yeah.
- in the land.

00:48:50.607 --> 00:48:52.901
Like pretty much our whole
relationship

00:48:52.901 --> 00:48:54.736
has been like around tree
planting,

00:48:54.736 --> 00:48:56.488
so...
- Yeah.

00:48:56.488 --> 00:48:58.490
- Like the first day
of the semester,

00:48:58.490 --> 00:48:59.866
like we're in the same class

00:48:59.866 --> 00:49:02.494
and I just like see her
in the classroom.

00:49:02.494 --> 00:49:04.412
And I was just like,

00:49:04.412 --> 00:49:06.623
"Who is this person?"
It's the most beautiful girl

00:49:06.623 --> 00:49:09.042
I've ever seen
in my entire life.

00:49:09.042 --> 00:49:12.337
And then I couldn't stop
staring every day.

00:49:12.337 --> 00:49:15.173
And I thought like I definitely
knew I was being creepy,

00:49:15.173 --> 00:49:16.675
but I thought that maybe

00:49:16.675 --> 00:49:19.094
I was being kind of like secret
about it...

00:49:19.094 --> 00:49:21.638
- Definitely not.
- but like 100 percent wasn't.

00:49:21.638 --> 00:49:23.473
- It was not discreet.
- No.

00:49:23.473 --> 00:49:25.892
- I like sold all my stuff.
I didn't wanna plant anymore.

00:49:25.892 --> 00:49:27.727
I like "retired."

00:49:27.727 --> 00:49:30.522
But um, she wanted to plant, so
I bought all new stuff again...

00:49:30.522 --> 00:49:31.690
Both: (Laughing)

00:49:31.690 --> 00:49:34.067
- and made my way out back
to the bush.

00:49:34.067 --> 00:49:37.070
- Yeah. That was pretty nice.
- Yeah.

00:49:38.738 --> 00:49:41.032
- Well, when I first started
getting to know Sally,

00:49:41.032 --> 00:49:42.659
she wouldn't stop talking about
tree planting all the time.

00:49:42.659 --> 00:49:45.203
- As you do.
As tree planters do.

00:49:45.203 --> 00:49:48.415
- So much, and then
she went tree planting

00:49:48.415 --> 00:49:50.375
and I went and I did my own
thing for the summer.

00:49:50.375 --> 00:49:53.044
And then I just thought -

00:49:53.044 --> 00:49:55.255
like seeing all the pictures
and hearing even more stories -

00:49:55.255 --> 00:49:56.923
I'm like I have to try this.

00:49:56.923 --> 00:50:01.386
- It's funny how planting noise
like helps us kinda help--

00:50:01.386 --> 00:50:04.556
well, it definitely helps us
build our lives together.

00:50:04.556 --> 00:50:07.017
It definitely built
our relationship together.

00:50:07.017 --> 00:50:09.269
It exists because of
tree planting.

00:50:09.269 --> 00:50:13.356
It's such a nice time to just
be working side by side.

00:50:13.356 --> 00:50:15.191
- Yeah.

00:50:15.191 --> 00:50:17.068
It's worked out pretty well
for us so far.

00:50:17.068 --> 00:50:19.237
- Yeah, it's worked out
really well.

00:50:19.237 --> 00:50:21.406
- One of the reasons we wanted
to come tree planting

00:50:21.406 --> 00:50:23.575
was 'cause it's a job
that we get to work together

00:50:23.575 --> 00:50:24.993
all day, all the time,

00:50:24.993 --> 00:50:27.120
and we partner plant together.
- Yeah.

00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:28.955
- Somehow we're still not sick
of each other...

00:50:28.955 --> 00:50:30.957
- (Chuckles)
- but we do it every day.

00:50:30.957 --> 00:50:32.709
- Yeah.
- It's really fun.

00:50:32.709 --> 00:50:34.377
It makes it so fun.

00:50:34.377 --> 00:50:36.379
- Yeah, even just having
someone on the land with you

00:50:36.379 --> 00:50:38.715
is so much better.
- Mm-hmm.

00:50:38.715 --> 00:50:40.717
- Just, I don't know, even if
you're having a bad day,

00:50:40.717 --> 00:50:42.552
they can actually like talk
to you.

00:50:42.552 --> 00:50:43.720
- Riley has like...

00:50:44.721 --> 00:50:46.723
reasons to be like sad

00:50:46.723 --> 00:50:49.893
or, I don't know, a grump,

00:50:49.893 --> 00:50:53.063
but he's like the most happy
go-lucky person I've ever met,

00:50:53.063 --> 00:50:55.607
and I just love him.
- Mm.

00:50:55.607 --> 00:50:57.525
- And I'm gonna cry
if I say anymore,

00:50:57.525 --> 00:50:59.736
so I'm not gonna say anymore.
- (Chuckles)

00:50:59.736 --> 00:51:01.821
- I have my own stress on me

00:51:01.821 --> 00:51:03.823
trying to do better
in my second season,

00:51:03.823 --> 00:51:05.742
and I also like carry her
stress with me too.

00:51:05.742 --> 00:51:08.036
And I can see her when
she walks through the land

00:51:08.036 --> 00:51:10.580
and I, I'm just like,
"Uh-oh, like that's not...

00:51:10.580 --> 00:51:12.290
she's not having a good day."

00:51:12.290 --> 00:51:13.833
I can just see it.
- (Chuckles) Yeah.

00:51:14.834 --> 00:51:18.463
- Like you've seen every...
every emotion of mine

00:51:18.463 --> 00:51:20.340
and it probably first came out
planting.

00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:22.342
- Yeah.
- Like you've seen my very ups

00:51:22.342 --> 00:51:24.219
and very downs and very middles

00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:26.304
like... I guess.
- Yeah.

00:51:26.304 --> 00:51:28.556
- I don't know,
we're really good for

00:51:28.556 --> 00:51:31.559
if one person is feeling
really upset,

00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:34.771
the other person will kind
of be extra positive

00:51:34.771 --> 00:51:37.107
to try to calm them down.

00:51:37.107 --> 00:51:38.942
But then sometimes
it works against us.

00:51:38.942 --> 00:51:41.820
If one person's upset, the
other person also gets upset

00:51:41.820 --> 00:51:43.780
and then we're both just like,
"Agh!

00:51:43.780 --> 00:51:45.782
We're so upset right now."

00:51:54.416 --> 00:51:57.293
- Sometimes you just...
we'll just both be pissed

00:51:57.293 --> 00:51:59.921
and we'll just like go
and plant our separate ways

00:51:59.921 --> 00:52:02.340
and that'll be that.
- And then reunite.

00:52:02.340 --> 00:52:04.175
- Like the same as being
by yourself,

00:52:04.175 --> 00:52:05.802
like sometimes there's just
nothing you can do

00:52:05.802 --> 00:52:07.554
and it's just a rough day.

00:52:07.554 --> 00:52:10.473
And really picking yourself
back up is just...

00:52:10.473 --> 00:52:12.517
- We're like--
- if it's really something...

00:52:12.517 --> 00:52:14.185
- If it's really something,
yeah,

00:52:14.185 --> 00:52:17.230
which usually happens because
we're both just over-tired,

00:52:17.230 --> 00:52:19.023
over-stressed,

00:52:19.023 --> 00:52:21.276
like working ourselves
too hard, and then we're like,

00:52:21.276 --> 00:52:23.695
"All right, we're talking
about this right now

00:52:23.695 --> 00:52:26.072
in the middle of the land.
Like drop your shovels

00:52:26.072 --> 00:52:29.159
'cause we're talking
about this right now.

00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:30.827
- I still... I dunno,

00:52:30.827 --> 00:52:33.163
I still really like it a lot.
- Yeah.

00:52:33.163 --> 00:52:35.331
- (Laughs)

00:52:35.331 --> 00:52:36.833
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

00:52:36.833 --> 00:52:39.419
I, I feel like I know you
a lot better.

00:52:39.419 --> 00:52:41.838
And, I dunno, I feel like
it's made our relationship

00:52:41.838 --> 00:52:45.300
better too and stronger.
- I think so, for sure. Yeah.

00:52:45.300 --> 00:52:47.051
- Yeah.
- I think planting can make

00:52:47.051 --> 00:52:49.721
or break relationships,
definitely.

00:52:49.721 --> 00:52:51.723
- Yeah?
- Yeah.

00:52:51.723 --> 00:52:54.267
- Well, I'm glad that
it's making it (laughing)

00:52:54.267 --> 00:52:57.187
for two seasons so far.
- (Laughs) Yeah. Me too.

00:52:57.187 --> 00:52:59.606
Yeah.

00:52:59.606 --> 00:53:00.857
(Fire roars,
Planters chatter)

00:53:02.609 --> 00:53:04.277
- Went on my first year
of planting -

00:53:04.277 --> 00:53:05.862
I had a girlfriend at the time

00:53:05.862 --> 00:53:07.614
and I used to like press
flowers.

00:53:07.614 --> 00:53:09.699
Like I'd flatten them and
they'd dry out in my tally book

00:53:09.699 --> 00:53:11.868
and then eventually
I'd like take them out,

00:53:11.868 --> 00:53:13.953
and put them in an envelope
and send them back home

00:53:13.953 --> 00:53:16.164
or send them back to her.
Sam: So cute.

00:53:17.624 --> 00:53:19.626
(Bees buzz)

00:53:21.211 --> 00:53:24.130
- But uh... no, anyways,
we broke up last year.

00:53:24.130 --> 00:53:26.758
So, I don't know why,

00:53:26.758 --> 00:53:28.635
but I started taking
to squishing bugs instead...

00:53:28.635 --> 00:53:30.386
All: (Laughing)
- In my tally book.

00:53:35.058 --> 00:53:36.893
This year I got a little, uh,

00:53:36.893 --> 00:53:38.770
like a little film canister,

00:53:38.770 --> 00:53:40.605
and then I started killing
horseflies

00:53:40.605 --> 00:53:42.232
and putting them in there.

00:53:43.566 --> 00:53:45.735
And then maybe one day I'll
give it to the girl I love.

00:53:45.735 --> 00:53:47.153
All: (Laughing)

00:53:48.196 --> 00:53:50.740
- ♪ It seems like yesterday ♪

00:53:51.741 --> 00:53:54.244
♪ We're jumping off
bales of hay ♪

00:53:55.620 --> 00:53:58.206
♪ Down by the fireside ♪

00:53:59.457 --> 00:54:02.252
♪ Just watching the leaves
blow by ♪

00:54:02.252 --> 00:54:04.170
♪ It sounds a lot better ♪

00:54:04.170 --> 00:54:07.298
♪ Than our love slippin' away ♪

00:54:09.926 --> 00:54:12.387
- So, last year at the end
of the season,

00:54:12.387 --> 00:54:15.265
uh, yeah, my heart was
very broken,

00:54:16.683 --> 00:54:20.061
and I really didn't know how
I was gonna like continue.

00:54:20.061 --> 00:54:22.272
Like I really thought
about leaving.

00:54:24.524 --> 00:54:26.484
And then I just had like
this realization:

00:54:26.484 --> 00:54:28.194
why the fuck should I leave?

00:54:30.238 --> 00:54:32.031
'Cause, at first,
I was just too sad

00:54:32.031 --> 00:54:34.117
and I couldn't really...

00:54:34.117 --> 00:54:36.536
just channel it into planting.

00:54:36.536 --> 00:54:39.205
And then I just like kind
of raged out,

00:54:39.205 --> 00:54:41.457
but like in a more healthy way.

00:54:41.457 --> 00:54:43.585
Like it was just planting.
- Okay.

00:54:43.585 --> 00:54:45.169
The rage plant.

00:54:45.169 --> 00:54:46.963
(Shovel chops)

00:54:46.963 --> 00:54:48.965
- I was gonna be single
for the first time

00:54:48.965 --> 00:54:51.968
and I was scared,
really scared.

00:54:51.968 --> 00:54:54.470
But I think that that's...

00:54:54.470 --> 00:54:57.265
I was too in my comfort zone
in that relationship.

00:54:57.265 --> 00:55:00.101
And although he was
an amazing boy

00:55:00.101 --> 00:55:02.020
and I'll always love him,

00:55:02.020 --> 00:55:05.189
I... It wasn't good anymore

00:55:05.189 --> 00:55:08.109
and we both needed to move on
and we did.

00:55:08.109 --> 00:55:10.028
And I... like I feel

00:55:10.028 --> 00:55:13.114
more myself than ever before.

00:55:14.324 --> 00:55:16.492
I just felt so motivated.

00:55:16.492 --> 00:55:18.995
The heartbreak
just seemed nothing

00:55:20.330 --> 00:55:22.040
in comparison to like all
the things

00:55:22.040 --> 00:55:24.250
I had in front of me.

00:55:24.250 --> 00:55:27.795
Sometimes emotions are good
catalysts for things.

00:55:27.795 --> 00:55:30.048
- This is very true.
- Yeah.

00:56:01.162 --> 00:56:04.040
- So, um, I guess there's
kind of like two versions

00:56:04.040 --> 00:56:05.875
of the why I keep tree planting

00:56:05.875 --> 00:56:07.502
or why I started tree planting
story.

00:56:07.502 --> 00:56:09.337
The first one was that
my boyfriend

00:56:09.337 --> 00:56:12.048
went tree planting one year
and, uh, he had a lot of fun,

00:56:12.048 --> 00:56:15.343
so I decided to go
the second year.

00:56:15.343 --> 00:56:17.178
And kind of the second
reason is that -

00:56:17.178 --> 00:56:19.180
the second version
of that story is that

00:56:19.180 --> 00:56:21.182
that year that he came back
from tree planting,

00:56:21.182 --> 00:56:23.101
I got diagnosed with bipolar
disorder

00:56:23.101 --> 00:56:25.269
and was like having
a really rough time.

00:56:25.269 --> 00:56:27.438
Like I had a huge breakdown

00:56:27.438 --> 00:56:29.607
and was having a really
rough time

00:56:29.607 --> 00:56:31.859
and just like needed
to do something

00:56:31.859 --> 00:56:33.319
radically different
with my life.

00:56:33.319 --> 00:56:34.612
I needed to like do some,

00:56:34.612 --> 00:56:36.406
I needed to do something
really hard

00:56:36.406 --> 00:56:39.158
that was gonna like make me
feel a lot better.

00:56:39.158 --> 00:56:41.619
So I went tree planting

00:56:41.619 --> 00:56:43.246
and for the first month,

00:56:43.246 --> 00:56:45.415
I thought this is
the biggest mistake

00:56:45.415 --> 00:56:47.125
I ever made in my entire life.

00:56:47.125 --> 00:56:49.711
And like I don't know
why like I would--

00:56:49.711 --> 00:56:51.421
why anyone would choose
to do this to themselves,

00:56:51.421 --> 00:56:53.464
this is horrible.
And then the second month,

00:56:53.464 --> 00:56:55.842
I like pretty much every one
of my symptoms disappeared

00:56:55.842 --> 00:56:58.970
and like, just from like,
you know, the constant exercise

00:56:58.970 --> 00:57:01.347
and like being out in the woods

00:57:01.347 --> 00:57:03.683
and feeling like...
breathing good air

00:57:03.683 --> 00:57:06.728
and like just the healing
power of nature

00:57:06.728 --> 00:57:08.521
was very strong with me

00:57:08.521 --> 00:57:10.356
the second month of tree
planting.

00:57:12.525 --> 00:57:14.110
(Engine rumbling)

00:57:22.785 --> 00:57:25.747
I have such a very specific
Indigenous experience.

00:57:25.747 --> 00:57:27.915
I have status,
but I'm mixed race

00:57:27.915 --> 00:57:30.168
and I'm from, um,
I'm from the city centre.

00:57:30.168 --> 00:57:32.712
I didn't grow up on the Rez.
I'm from Toronto and...

00:57:32.712 --> 00:57:35.131
thank you. Like wela'liek

00:57:35.131 --> 00:57:37.175
to like all of the Nations
whose land I've been

00:57:37.175 --> 00:57:39.177
like reforesting this whole
time too,

00:57:39.177 --> 00:57:42.263
because I'm not in Mi'kmaq
territory at all.

00:57:42.263 --> 00:57:44.182
And I think it's probably
pretty ironic

00:57:44.182 --> 00:57:46.017
that this Mi'kmaq kid

00:57:46.017 --> 00:57:48.352
who's been tapping into
like being Mi'kmaq

00:57:48.352 --> 00:57:50.563
all the way on the frickin'
west coast, you know,

00:57:50.563 --> 00:57:52.774
getting covered in
west coast dirt.

00:57:52.774 --> 00:57:54.484
(Flies buzz)

00:57:55.902 --> 00:57:57.737
Planting even at its worst,
for me,

00:57:57.737 --> 00:57:59.864
like the trees that are going
in the ground

00:57:59.864 --> 00:58:01.574
are contributing to a kind
of ecology.

00:58:01.574 --> 00:58:03.284
It's not like the forest
that was there before,

00:58:03.284 --> 00:58:05.286
but it's not nothing and uh,

00:58:05.286 --> 00:58:07.413
and it feels like
a kind of healing.

00:58:07.413 --> 00:58:09.165
And you can't plant a tree

00:58:09.165 --> 00:58:11.000
without believing in
the future.

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.002
You can't plant a tree without
believing that there's uh...

00:58:14.170 --> 00:58:17.048
there's gonna be...
there's gonna be time

00:58:17.048 --> 00:58:19.592
for the tree to grow.

00:58:21.052 --> 00:58:22.512
I really don't think
that anyone

00:58:22.512 --> 00:58:25.264
who has any kind of like
empathy for the earth

00:58:25.264 --> 00:58:27.308
as a living thing, um,

00:58:27.308 --> 00:58:29.435
and empathy for other living
things on the planet

00:58:29.435 --> 00:58:31.479
can come to a cut block

00:58:31.479 --> 00:58:34.190
and not be overwhelmed
by emotion

00:58:34.190 --> 00:58:38.069
and like feel a kind of,
like a real kind of grief

00:58:38.069 --> 00:58:39.821
by just seeing the reality

00:58:39.821 --> 00:58:41.948
of what the devastation
looks like.

00:58:41.948 --> 00:58:44.200
Just something terrible
has happened to it.

00:58:45.326 --> 00:58:47.662
(Thunder rumbles)

00:58:47.662 --> 00:58:49.747
(Flies buzz)

00:58:51.707 --> 00:58:53.292
(Birds chirp,
woodpecker taps)

00:58:53.292 --> 00:58:55.711
Uh, there's, there's nothing
that I can do.

00:58:55.711 --> 00:58:58.798
Like I can't go back
in time and fix it.

00:58:58.798 --> 00:59:00.299
(Crying)

00:59:00.299 --> 00:59:02.426
But I've got a shovel,
you know? Like there's like...

00:59:02.426 --> 00:59:05.054
and sometimes that's
the only thing you can do.

00:59:05.054 --> 00:59:06.973
So, um... (Crying)

00:59:08.015 --> 00:59:09.225
(Sniffles and exhales)

00:59:11.561 --> 00:59:13.771
Yeah. So I can just plant
good trees.

00:59:15.857 --> 00:59:17.984
(Engine rumbles)

00:59:43.843 --> 00:59:45.678
(Objects clatter)

01:00:22.965 --> 01:00:24.800
(Camera shutter snaps)

01:01:00.169 --> 01:01:02.129
(Tense music plays)

01:01:21.232 --> 01:01:23.192
Liam: I think we're used
to seeing the forest

01:01:23.192 --> 01:01:25.736
as something that is tranquil
and inviting

01:01:26.946 --> 01:01:28.948
and beautiful, lush.

01:01:34.954 --> 01:01:38.124
- Here we are in
a burnt forest.

01:01:38.124 --> 01:01:40.209
It's midnight

01:01:41.794 --> 01:01:45.089
and it doesn't get dark out
till really 10:30.

01:01:45.089 --> 01:01:46.382
(Owl hoots)

01:01:49.135 --> 01:01:51.220
Yeah, it's a little bit scary,
but uh...

01:01:51.220 --> 01:01:53.514
you know, because there...
there can be cougars,

01:01:53.514 --> 01:01:56.183
there can be bears.

01:01:56.183 --> 01:01:57.643
I think we're,

01:01:57.643 --> 01:01:59.520
we're a bit afraid coming
into the forest.

01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:01.230
It's scary.

01:02:01.230 --> 01:02:03.941
And uh... tree planters,

01:02:03.941 --> 01:02:06.527
a lot of their life happens
in the day

01:02:06.527 --> 01:02:08.404
and that's the stuff
that we see photographed.

01:02:08.404 --> 01:02:11.157
That's like the portraits
I've been photographing.

01:02:11.157 --> 01:02:12.867
But at night you live in a tent

01:02:12.867 --> 01:02:14.660
and you live in...

01:02:14.660 --> 01:02:17.163
very close to the forest,
in the forest.

01:02:17.163 --> 01:02:19.957
And it is scary and there's
this sort of fantasy idea

01:02:19.957 --> 01:02:23.085
that forests are these
like friendly places

01:02:23.085 --> 01:02:24.754
that people go for forest
bathing. (Chuckles)

01:02:26.547 --> 01:02:27.923
I think, well, yes,
there's definitely

01:02:27.923 --> 01:02:31.510
something therapeutic
about being in a forest,

01:02:31.510 --> 01:02:34.263
but most people never see

01:02:34.263 --> 01:02:36.223
or experience anything
like this,

01:02:36.223 --> 01:02:37.475
let alone photograph it.

01:02:37.475 --> 01:02:40.770
So we are showing part
of the devastation

01:02:40.770 --> 01:02:42.438
of the forest from the fires,

01:02:42.438 --> 01:02:44.607
and that's, that's a really big
part of the story

01:02:44.607 --> 01:02:47.860
and it's not how people imagine
seeing the forest.

01:02:47.860 --> 01:02:51.655
I am just so preoccupied
with logistics.

01:02:51.655 --> 01:02:55.659
Like all I do is shoot
and think about shooting

01:02:55.659 --> 01:02:59.580
and sleep and eat,
and it's just making it happen.

01:03:01.957 --> 01:03:05.795
When you get it, it is like,
it is like a fucking miracle.

01:03:05.795 --> 01:03:08.464
- (Laughs)
- It's unbelievable.

01:03:08.464 --> 01:03:11.342
(Flies buzz)

01:03:23.229 --> 01:03:24.772
(Flies buzz)

01:03:24.772 --> 01:03:27.483
(Thunder rumbles and cracks)

01:03:39.495 --> 01:03:41.330
I mean it's kind of depressing

01:03:41.330 --> 01:03:43.499
because it's, it's almost
the only thing in life

01:03:43.499 --> 01:03:46.127
that really makes me happy -

01:03:46.127 --> 01:03:49.088
a successful photograph
that was hard to get.

01:03:59.890 --> 01:04:01.892
(Thunder rumbles)

01:04:39.096 --> 01:04:41.223
(Thunder cracks)

01:04:54.987 --> 01:04:56.780
(Thunder cracks)

01:05:11.879 --> 01:05:13.881
(Indistinct chatter, laughter,
and cheering)

01:05:23.641 --> 01:05:28.312
(Indistinct chatter, laughter,
and cheering)

01:05:37.738 --> 01:05:41.742
(Indistinct chatter, laughter,
and cheering)

01:05:56.882 --> 01:06:00.469
(Indistinct cheering
and laughter)

01:06:09.478 --> 01:06:12.064
(Indistinct chatter, laughter,
and cheering)

01:06:30.249 --> 01:06:32.209
(Indistinct chatter, laughter,
and cheering)

01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:46.640
(Indistinct chatter,
encouragement and laughter)

01:07:43.238 --> 01:07:46.450
(Indistinct chatter, cheering,
and laughter)

01:07:54.583 --> 01:07:55.918
(Indistinct chatter)

01:07:56.919 --> 01:07:59.505
(Fire crackles)

01:08:10.516 --> 01:08:14.103
(Cheering)
- We got fire!

01:08:17.398 --> 01:08:19.525
(Indistinct yelling)

01:08:19.525 --> 01:08:22.027
(Indistinct yelling)

01:08:22.027 --> 01:08:23.821
(Fire crackles)

01:08:23.821 --> 01:08:25.864
Tara: The night now washes
over the city,

01:08:25.864 --> 01:08:27.533
like the breath of your mother

01:08:27.533 --> 01:08:29.159
when she leaned down
to kiss you goodnight,

01:08:29.159 --> 01:08:30.786
back when you thought
that maybe

01:08:30.786 --> 01:08:31.787
there was something
in this world

01:08:31.787 --> 01:08:34.164
that you could learn.

01:08:34.164 --> 01:08:37.835
And underground,
things are coming alive

01:08:37.835 --> 01:08:40.546
and one of those things
can be you,

01:08:40.546 --> 01:08:42.798
and you're not alone.

01:08:42.798 --> 01:08:44.633
I promise.

01:08:46.427 --> 01:08:48.512
(Footsteps crunch)

01:08:50.472 --> 01:08:53.100
(Whistling,
indistinct shout)

01:09:18.917 --> 01:09:20.502
(Footstep thuds)

01:09:20.502 --> 01:09:22.379
- And you know, like,
and they say in AA, right,

01:09:22.379 --> 01:09:24.381
to believe in a God,

01:09:24.381 --> 01:09:26.258
and for me, when I was in it,

01:09:26.258 --> 01:09:30.304
I always believed that G-O-D
was like the great outdoors.

01:09:30.304 --> 01:09:31.972
And that was my...

01:09:31.972 --> 01:09:33.515
that was my higher being,

01:09:33.515 --> 01:09:35.642
that was my thing to relate
to was--

01:09:35.642 --> 01:09:38.479
You know, that was my God
was the great outdoors.

01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:40.314
(Foliage rustles)

01:09:41.940 --> 01:09:43.609
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

01:09:43.609 --> 01:09:46.862
Well, I guess I started
tree planting

01:09:46.862 --> 01:09:48.947
as a way of running away,
I guess,

01:09:48.947 --> 01:09:52.659
from bad friends
and bad situations.

01:09:52.659 --> 01:09:54.411
Honestly, it's been uh...

01:09:54.411 --> 01:09:58.332
I'm pretty sure it saved
my life for sure, in a sense,

01:09:58.332 --> 01:10:00.375
because I had a bad history
with drugs

01:10:00.375 --> 01:10:02.878
for at least six years.

01:10:02.878 --> 01:10:05.088
And uh, yeah, like I, I dunno,

01:10:05.088 --> 01:10:07.758
We used to do intravenous,
I guess,

01:10:07.758 --> 01:10:09.218
you would like to call it.

01:10:09.218 --> 01:10:11.220
A little stage fright
right now. Sorry.

01:10:11.220 --> 01:10:12.721
(Clears throat)

01:10:17.476 --> 01:10:20.229
Tree planting - everything -
has made me who I am today

01:10:20.229 --> 01:10:21.605
and I'm...

01:10:21.605 --> 01:10:23.690
uh, you know,
I'm happy to say that I'm...

01:10:23.690 --> 01:10:26.235
I like who I am today
and I'm very proud of myself.

01:10:27.736 --> 01:10:30.572
(Chuckles)
Hear that, Mom?

01:10:33.492 --> 01:10:35.494
(Foliage rustles)

01:10:37.287 --> 01:10:39.456
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

01:10:40.499 --> 01:10:42.668
Rita: Do you think tree
planting is an addiction?

01:10:42.668 --> 01:10:45.170
- (Laughs)

01:10:45.170 --> 01:10:47.256
Tree planting is a huge
addiction for sure.

01:10:47.256 --> 01:10:49.675
I totally just swapped heroin
for this, for sure.

01:10:49.675 --> 01:10:51.176
(Laughs)

01:10:51.176 --> 01:10:53.762
Oh my God, there's nothing
like this.

01:10:53.762 --> 01:10:55.472
I'm like, you'll never find
a job like this.

01:10:55.472 --> 01:10:56.932
Oh my God.
(Laughs)

01:10:57.933 --> 01:11:00.561
It's a good question.

01:11:00.561 --> 01:11:02.771
(Laughs and sighs)

01:11:07.150 --> 01:11:11.655
You get to really...
bond with people

01:11:11.655 --> 01:11:14.575
that you never thought
you would bond with.

01:11:14.575 --> 01:11:17.160
It helped me get through
my, my own struggles

01:11:17.160 --> 01:11:19.663
and realize that, you know,

01:11:19.663 --> 01:11:22.332
there's more to life than drugs

01:11:22.332 --> 01:11:24.418
and other things like that,

01:11:24.418 --> 01:11:26.503
and that the love of people
is out there.

01:11:26.503 --> 01:11:28.630
Everyone cares about each
other, you know.

01:11:28.630 --> 01:11:29.965
When you're out doing this
kind of stuff,

01:11:29.965 --> 01:11:31.800
people really care
about each other.

01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:34.219
And that's a... I think that
really spoke a lot to me

01:11:34.219 --> 01:11:36.013
when I was getting through
my addiction.

01:11:51.570 --> 01:11:52.988
(Tattoo machine buzzes)

01:11:52.988 --> 01:11:54.990
- How does it feel so far?

01:11:54.990 --> 01:11:57.784
- Oh, you started?
Both: (Laughing)

01:11:57.784 --> 01:11:59.328
- No, it actually
doesn't hurt at all.

01:11:59.328 --> 01:12:02.664
- Wow! Have you started?
- Funny kid.

01:12:02.664 --> 01:12:05.459
- (Laughs)
It feels good.

01:12:05.459 --> 01:12:07.336
(Tattoo machine buzzes)

01:12:08.503 --> 01:12:11.214
- Super.
- Yeah.

01:12:11.214 --> 01:12:13.717
(Tattoo machine buzzes)

01:12:21.642 --> 01:12:24.394
Meg: And I took that photo
that's inspired the tattoo

01:12:24.394 --> 01:12:26.188
last season.

01:12:26.188 --> 01:12:28.023
It was a really beautiful
treeline

01:12:28.023 --> 01:12:29.941
in this, in this camp
we were at.

01:12:29.941 --> 01:12:32.069
And I had the photo all year.

01:12:32.069 --> 01:12:33.820
I kept looking at it and I...

01:12:33.820 --> 01:12:36.907
I kinda, I knew right away
where I'd want it.

01:12:39.284 --> 01:12:40.786
(Tattoo machine buzzes)

01:12:44.665 --> 01:12:47.292
♪ Mixer on a Friday night ♪

01:12:47.292 --> 01:12:50.170
♪ Some pretty girls
and guys are here ♪

01:12:52.881 --> 01:12:55.467
♪ The things I have
I don't need ♪

01:12:55.467 --> 01:12:57.052
♪ And the things I want... ♪

01:12:57.052 --> 01:12:58.929
- It's a tree planting tattoo.

01:12:58.929 --> 01:13:01.348
- Oh, is it a,
is it a picture of...

01:13:01.348 --> 01:13:03.684
- Ernest. Yeah, you can see
his little bent ears.

01:13:05.143 --> 01:13:08.230
♪ What is it that makes me
feel this way ♪

01:13:09.564 --> 01:13:12.067
♪ It's not so easy to make ♪

01:13:14.069 --> 01:13:16.405
♪ All of my problems go away ♪

01:13:16.405 --> 01:13:18.490
(Camera shutter clicks)

01:13:18.490 --> 01:13:20.867
♪ Then again,
what else is there ♪

01:13:22.744 --> 01:13:25.664
♪ Another life,
some other way ♪

01:13:27.207 --> 01:13:29.626
♪ I really don't know
what you need ♪

01:13:31.586 --> 01:13:34.423
♪ I'm really trying to find ♪

01:13:34.423 --> 01:13:37.259
♪ That way ♪

01:13:41.346 --> 01:13:43.348
(Tattoo machine buzzes)

01:13:50.522 --> 01:13:52.441
- Wow...

01:13:52.441 --> 01:13:54.109
Wow!

01:13:55.902 --> 01:13:58.572
Holy crap!
Like look at it that way.

01:14:02.659 --> 01:14:05.287
Ani: Ten is a big one.

01:14:05.287 --> 01:14:07.289
- (Laughing)
- Happy Sober Day.

01:14:07.289 --> 01:14:09.791
- Okay. Oh my God,
look at that cake!

01:14:09.791 --> 01:14:10.959
Oh... oh...

01:14:10.959 --> 01:14:13.545
- Aw, there you go, Honey.

01:14:13.545 --> 01:14:15.464
- Oh my God, it's so beautiful.

01:14:15.464 --> 01:14:17.466
- You get to make a wish.

01:14:17.466 --> 01:14:19.468
- Mm...

01:14:22.304 --> 01:14:24.765
okay. (Blows)
- (Laughs)

01:14:24.765 --> 01:14:27.434
- I mean, of course, I have
almost 11 years, right,

01:14:27.434 --> 01:14:29.895
but we're doing this
for the film, so. (Laughs)

01:14:30.896 --> 01:14:34.024
For the first ten years
that I tried to get sober,

01:14:34.024 --> 01:14:36.026
I never...

01:14:36.026 --> 01:14:38.528
never believed that
I would get one month.

01:14:38.528 --> 01:14:40.197
I never believed it.
Like for ten years,

01:14:40.197 --> 01:14:42.491
I would go into meetings
and people would like,

01:14:42.491 --> 01:14:44.409
they'd say, "Oh, everyone
with a year sober

01:14:44.409 --> 01:14:45.994
put up their hands.

01:14:45.994 --> 01:14:48.455
And I just thought like
that is the craziest shit.

01:14:48.455 --> 01:14:50.832
Like I will never be
that person.

01:14:50.832 --> 01:14:52.459
I will never be that person.

01:14:52.459 --> 01:14:54.169
So I'll tell you
what I wished for.

01:14:54.169 --> 01:14:56.671
- What?

01:14:56.671 --> 01:14:58.507
- One more... (Chuckles)

01:14:58.507 --> 01:15:00.801
one more day of sobriety,

01:15:00.801 --> 01:15:04.262
uh, one more tree,

01:15:04.262 --> 01:15:06.056
and one more picture.

01:15:06.056 --> 01:15:07.724
- (Laughing)
- Awwww...

01:15:10.435 --> 01:15:12.938
(Wind gusts lightly)

01:15:27.035 --> 01:15:28.578
- Oh... (Sniffles)

01:15:28.578 --> 01:15:32.207
Um, I don't know how people
are supposed to handle grief,

01:15:32.207 --> 01:15:33.959
but uh...

01:15:33.959 --> 01:15:36.753
it's taking, it's gonna take
some time to adjust for sure.

01:15:36.753 --> 01:15:39.631
You know, crying every day
so far

01:15:39.631 --> 01:15:42.551
since I've lost him,
but uh...

01:15:42.551 --> 01:15:44.761
yeah, it's been uh...

01:15:44.761 --> 01:15:46.805
I don't know what else to say.
He's uh...

01:15:46.805 --> 01:15:48.723
I miss that guy. He was my...

01:15:48.723 --> 01:15:50.475
he was my better half for sure.

01:15:50.475 --> 01:15:52.352
He was the better half of me.
(Laughs)

01:15:54.938 --> 01:15:58.567
(Rain patters,
thunder rumbles)

01:16:07.784 --> 01:16:10.078
Uh, I took...
I took his collar

01:16:11.246 --> 01:16:14.749
'cause, uh, I knew he was
excited about this year.

01:16:14.749 --> 01:16:17.419
So I took his collar
after he died and uh...

01:16:17.419 --> 01:16:19.754
(Emotional) I just told him
that he'd be with me

01:16:19.754 --> 01:16:22.257
the rest of the year.

01:16:22.257 --> 01:16:24.259
I don't know. I just...

01:16:25.343 --> 01:16:26.678
it's just a nice reminder

01:16:26.678 --> 01:16:30.265
that he'll always be there
with me

01:16:30.265 --> 01:16:33.268
and, uh, that I don't forget
about him

01:16:34.394 --> 01:16:37.397
'cause he definitely made
this job a lot easier.

01:16:37.397 --> 01:16:39.524
(Chuckling and crying)

01:16:44.070 --> 01:16:45.697
It's a very hard day that day.

01:16:47.032 --> 01:16:48.325
Agh!

01:16:48.325 --> 01:16:51.286
After getting up
from being sick at 3:30,

01:16:51.286 --> 01:16:53.288
(Sniffs) um...

01:16:53.288 --> 01:16:56.166
played for a while.

01:16:56.166 --> 01:16:58.043
We played for a great time
actually together.

01:16:59.586 --> 01:17:03.298
And, uh, that day was by far
the first day

01:17:03.298 --> 01:17:05.550
of this whole year
that I spent the most time

01:17:05.550 --> 01:17:07.552
and paid the most attention
to him.

01:17:07.552 --> 01:17:10.889
I split my whole food bowl
with him at the cache.

01:17:10.889 --> 01:17:14.851
I split all my food
and we just played and slept,

01:17:14.851 --> 01:17:17.771
and uh, it was by far the best
day we had that year,

01:17:17.771 --> 01:17:22.025
and I, and to go out on a note
like that was a good one,

01:17:22.025 --> 01:17:23.944
um, but a very sad one.

01:17:24.945 --> 01:17:26.947
(Sobbing)

01:17:28.323 --> 01:17:30.659
(Rain patters,
birds chirp)

01:17:33.954 --> 01:17:36.539
I definitely feel his presence
now missing.

01:17:37.540 --> 01:17:41.169
And uh, a lot of time I just
get to the back of my piece

01:17:41.169 --> 01:17:43.171
and I just start crying.

01:17:44.339 --> 01:17:46.091
I just, I just feel.

01:17:46.091 --> 01:17:47.634
I just let myself feel

01:17:47.634 --> 01:17:49.344
and remember the good times
with Ernest.

01:17:49.344 --> 01:17:52.347
And I mean it makes me cry now,
but...

01:17:52.347 --> 01:17:54.349
um... one of these days,

01:17:54.349 --> 01:17:56.268
it'll turn into a lot more
smiles than cries.

01:17:56.268 --> 01:17:58.353
(Chuckles)

01:17:58.353 --> 01:18:00.772
(Camera shutter clicks,
low boom)

01:18:25.630 --> 01:18:27.632
(Shovel strikes and scrapes)

01:18:37.267 --> 01:18:39.602
- Well, I'm Meaghan.

01:18:39.602 --> 01:18:42.480
This is my younger brother
Thomas.

01:18:42.480 --> 01:18:45.734
And I started planting
a year before he did.

01:18:46.735 --> 01:18:49.279
Uh, I suppose I was the bad
influence

01:18:49.279 --> 01:18:51.406
and brought him out here.
(Chuckles)

01:18:52.574 --> 01:18:55.577
Our parents were maybe
slightly overwhelmed

01:18:55.577 --> 01:18:57.412
when they first heard

01:18:57.412 --> 01:18:59.581
that Tom was gonna come out
with me planting.

01:18:59.581 --> 01:19:01.458
- I thought they were relieved.
- What have you done?!

01:19:01.458 --> 01:19:03.084
- "Thank God Tom
is going out there.

01:19:03.084 --> 01:19:04.586
Now Meg won't be out there

01:19:04.586 --> 01:19:06.254
making all these crazy
decisions."

01:19:06.254 --> 01:19:09.424
- That's true. (Laughs)
- No.

01:19:10.967 --> 01:19:12.761
- We have a really good time
on the land.

01:19:12.761 --> 01:19:14.429
There's no one else
I would rather plant with.

01:19:17.015 --> 01:19:20.435
We will not go a day
without arguing on the land.

01:19:21.436 --> 01:19:23.271
(Chuckles)
- A bag up even.

01:19:23.271 --> 01:19:25.648
- We won't go a bag up without
yelling at each other,

01:19:25.648 --> 01:19:28.568
working it out
and then coming back from it.

01:19:28.568 --> 01:19:30.570
(Laughs)

01:19:32.113 --> 01:19:34.074
We've had big conversations
on the block.

01:19:34.074 --> 01:19:36.117
We know each other so well now
and, and are...

01:19:36.117 --> 01:19:38.328
also, you know, we see each
other all the time.

01:19:38.328 --> 01:19:41.122
And I think that being out here
and experiencing this together

01:19:41.122 --> 01:19:45.043
has allowed us to build
a relationship of our own

01:19:45.043 --> 01:19:47.212
that is such a friendship

01:19:47.212 --> 01:19:49.672
and, uh, that's awesome.

01:19:51.049 --> 01:19:53.218
- Those kind of relationships
that you can build

01:19:53.218 --> 01:19:56.346
between people in a work
environment are very special,

01:19:56.346 --> 01:19:58.598
but also very difficult to...

01:19:58.598 --> 01:20:00.809
to manage at times.

01:20:00.809 --> 01:20:02.977
(Shovel strikes)

01:20:05.021 --> 01:20:08.358
- Even just being out here
and being part of an activity

01:20:08.358 --> 01:20:11.611
that allows you to constantly
be impressed by people,

01:20:12.654 --> 01:20:15.907
be motivated,
you know, encourage,

01:20:15.907 --> 01:20:18.326
share and hold each other up.

01:20:20.245 --> 01:20:23.248
It's really easy in this job
to find yourself jarred

01:20:23.248 --> 01:20:24.833
in your own footsteps,

01:20:24.833 --> 01:20:26.501
stopped, looking around going,

01:20:26.501 --> 01:20:28.837
what am I doing
and where am I,

01:20:28.837 --> 01:20:31.339
and who am I
and who are these people?

01:20:31.339 --> 01:20:33.550
And to kind of detach yourself.

01:20:33.550 --> 01:20:35.677
But it's so cool how...

01:20:35.677 --> 01:20:38.263
how impressed you can be
with others and with yourself

01:20:38.263 --> 01:20:40.765
when they just keep moving.
(Laughs)

01:20:43.643 --> 01:20:46.062
- You just have to take it
one tree at a time.

01:20:46.062 --> 01:20:48.815
(Chuckles)
- You do. Truly.

01:20:52.777 --> 01:20:54.529
Yesterday was our last day.

01:20:54.529 --> 01:20:57.073
We just had a part...
part of a day to plant,

01:20:57.073 --> 01:20:59.742
and Tom and I,

01:20:59.742 --> 01:21:01.494
our boss knew that we were,

01:21:01.494 --> 01:21:03.288
we were gonna wanna plant
together

01:21:03.288 --> 01:21:04.789
and go through it together,
so we were given

01:21:04.789 --> 01:21:08.084
a tiny little piece
and just a few trees.

01:21:08.084 --> 01:21:10.879
And we went in
and we just went slow

01:21:10.879 --> 01:21:13.798
and chatted the whole time,
and we argued.

01:21:13.798 --> 01:21:15.550
- Oh yeah.
- (Laughs)

01:21:19.888 --> 01:21:21.681
And we walked to the back

01:21:21.681 --> 01:21:25.643
and planted our last trees
of the season,

01:21:25.643 --> 01:21:27.770
next to each other, together,

01:21:27.770 --> 01:21:29.939
and uh...

01:21:29.939 --> 01:21:32.650
that was really special for me
and...

01:21:32.650 --> 01:21:34.527
um...

01:21:34.527 --> 01:21:37.197
I think I even said to you
at one point like,

01:21:37.197 --> 01:21:39.157
thanks for...

01:21:39.157 --> 01:21:41.910
thanks for building forests
with me or something.

01:21:41.910 --> 01:21:43.661
- That is what you said.

01:21:47.332 --> 01:21:48.917
- (Emotional) Yeah,
and I mean it.

01:21:48.917 --> 01:21:50.418
(Light pat)

01:21:51.419 --> 01:21:53.588
- (Chuckles softly, sniffles)

01:22:21.282 --> 01:22:22.992
Rita: You're alone a lot

01:22:22.992 --> 01:22:24.619
when you're tree planting
in the field,

01:22:24.619 --> 01:22:27.038
yet you're surrounded
by community at the same time.

01:22:27.038 --> 01:22:28.498
So it's this,

01:22:28.498 --> 01:22:31.084
this sort of balance
of solitariness,

01:22:31.084 --> 01:22:34.295
but knowing that you're not
alone in your solitariness.

01:22:35.463 --> 01:22:37.382
Isn't that the human condition?

01:22:37.382 --> 01:22:39.467
You know, alone
but seeking community

01:22:39.467 --> 01:22:41.636
or alone but needing community.

01:22:43.012 --> 01:22:45.348
(Indistinct chatter)

01:22:45.348 --> 01:22:47.809
- We were cooking
for a minute there.

01:22:47.809 --> 01:22:50.478
(Indistinct chatter)

01:22:55.525 --> 01:22:57.318
Rita: You know, I didn't want
to go to my grave

01:22:57.318 --> 01:23:00.238
without having done this
documentation of tree planting

01:23:00.238 --> 01:23:02.824
that I've been thinking about
for more than 20 years.

01:23:03.825 --> 01:23:05.952
And a couple of years from now,
I'll, I'll...

01:23:05.952 --> 01:23:08.705
you know, I'll walk away
from the cut block

01:23:08.705 --> 01:23:10.707
for the last time I'm sure.

01:23:10.707 --> 01:23:13.001
How's the, how's the height,
Liam?

01:23:14.043 --> 01:23:16.796
My knees hurt, my back hurts,
my neck hurts.

01:23:16.796 --> 01:23:18.673
Every day I think it's amazing

01:23:18.673 --> 01:23:21.759
that I haven't fallen
and broken my camera,

01:23:21.759 --> 01:23:24.012
and I won't be able to do it
forever.

01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:29.517
I feel like I'm giving back
to an experience I had

01:23:29.517 --> 01:23:32.687
that gave me a lot
and now I'm giving back to it.

01:23:34.147 --> 01:23:36.357
♪ You will gonna let it all go ♪

01:23:38.401 --> 01:23:40.445
♪ I'm gonna let it all go ♪

01:23:42.447 --> 01:23:44.699
♪ Gonna let it all go ♪

01:23:46.451 --> 01:23:48.578
♪ This thing is happenin' ♪

01:23:48.578 --> 01:23:50.705
♪ All right ♪

01:23:50.705 --> 01:23:52.707
♪ This thing is happenin' ♪

01:23:52.707 --> 01:23:54.459
♪ All night ♪

01:23:54.459 --> 01:23:56.753
♪ Oh no, it's getting late ♪

01:24:02.884 --> 01:24:06.137
♪ Oh, will my boss ♪

01:24:06.137 --> 01:24:09.140
♪ Oh, you like my smile ♪

01:24:11.100 --> 01:24:14.437
♪ I said my boss ♪

01:24:14.437 --> 01:24:17.106
♪ Oh, you like my smile ♪

01:24:19.275 --> 01:24:21.944
♪ That ain't love talking ♪

01:24:22.945 --> 01:24:25.031
♪ Oh-oh the names are talking ♪

01:24:26.991 --> 01:24:29.077
♪ Oh, they're talking, talking ♪

01:30:38.112 --> 01:30:39.989
- (Speaking French)