Writing in the #NewYorkTimes, novelist #ClaireCameron describes her own teen years working in the bush, planting row after row of #BlackSpruces, precisely spaced at six-foot intervals:
Cameron's summer job was funded by the logging industry, whose #SelfRegulated, self-assigned "penalty" for clearcutting diverse forests of spruce, pine and aspen was to pay teenagers to create a #TreeFarm, at nine cents per sapling (minus camp costs).