From Our Footsteps, Giant Forests Grow (coastal planting photo book)

I've just recently released another coffee-table style photo book, featuring around 230 pages of full-colour photos of tree planting.  The photos are intended to convey, in mostly visual terms, what may be experienced while planting in British Columbia's rugged coastal region.  The book is priced at $39.95 for the print edition, and only $3.99 for the digital editions.

The photos were taken on various coastal projects, predominantly on the north end of Vancouver Island.  The best thing is that if you follow the Replant.ca website or Instagram account regularly, these photos will still be new to you.  Almost every one of the photos in the book is being shown to the public for the first time.  If you've planted elsewhere in Canada, this book should be an eye-opener about the specific challenges involved with coastal planting.

There are two print editions of this book available (hardcover and softcover).  There are also various digital editions available at very attractive pricing.  Here's a link to the print editions on Amazon's Canadian website:

  Full-Colour Softcover ($39.95 Cdn): www.amazon.ca/dp/1793876657 

  Full-Colour Hardcover (about $70 Cdn): www.amazon.ca/dp/1999016815

And here are links to digital eBook versions:

  Kindle Store ($3.99 Cdn): www.amazon.ca/dp/B084MLDVJH

  Apple Books ($3.99 Cdn):  books.apple.com/us/book/id1507327207

  Google Play ($3.99 Cdn):  play.google.com/store/books/details?id=6EvcDwAAQBAJ

    (In Google Books, you may have to change the setting from "Flowing Text" to "Original Pages" on some devices in order for the content to display correctly). 

For those who are on a tight budget, and for those who prefer looking at black & white photos, there's a greyscale version of this book available.  It is priced very affordably at $14.95 Cdn, and it has all the same photos as the other versions (but in black & white).

Incidentally, I have a second completely separate photo book specifically devoted to Interior tree planting.  The title of that book is Rite Of Passage and it focuses on traditional seasonal planting jobs based out of remote tent camps.  Also, don't confuse either of my photo books with Step By Step: A Tree Planter's Handbook, which is used throughout Canada as a training and reference manual for new tree planters.  There are videos at the bottom of this post to showcase these other two books.

Thanks for your interest!  For more information about books related to tree planting, visit:

www.replant.ca/books

Front cover, Softcover paperback edition:

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Front cover, Greyscale Paperback edition:

To visit the author's website, go to:

www.jonathanclark.ca

Other Tree Planting Books by Jonathan Clark

Rite Of Passage

(photo book based upon summer work in a remote tent camp)

Step By Step: A Tree Planter's Handbook

(comprehensive training guide and reference manual)

Introducing the Salmonberry

A couple years ago, I was planting on the coast in the fall.  The owner of the company, Nick, stopped by our room one evening after dinner.  He looked at me, and said, "I'm sorry."  I was puzzled, so I asked him what he was sorry for.  He said, "For tomorrow."  That sounded ominous.

The next morning, seven of us went out to a block together.  At the crew's tailgate safety meeting that morning, Nick had said that we were going to a very challenging block.  It turned out to be two giant patches of salmonberry, over our heads, that needed to be fill planted.  Luckily, the forester had herbicided the block, so although we'd have to work through a fairly thick tangle of brush, at least all the leaves were gone, so we could see where we were going.

It didn't look that bad, and Nina and I set out together on the low side of the road.  After the first four trees, I realized that it was going to be a tough day.  I don't usually bother to ask the tree prices, but I made an exception:  "Hey Nina, did you ask what the price was on this block?"  She said, "Eighty cents."  I started to laugh.  That was the last time that I laughed that day.

The moral of the story is, "When you think you want higher tree prices, sometimes you are wrong."

Anyway, that wasn't the point.  The point is that this purpose of this post is to teach you what salmonberry looks like.  Well, maybe not so much the plants, but at least the berries.  Salmonberry berries are often a very colourful orange-yellow colour, which I've never seen in other berries.

Salmonberry berries can also turn red after a while:

Occasionally, they can get to be quite large:

And most importantly, they're tasty!

So now you know what a salmonberry berry looks like.  Aside from the fact that the plants can grow to be taller than tree planters, and are extremely thorny, and you need a machete to force your way through them, they're a pretty cool plant.  The salmonberry is fairly common in coastal areas throughout British Columbia.

Here's a link to the Wiki, if you want to learn more:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_spectabilis

 If you'd like to learn more about the Canadian Tree Planting industry, visit:

www.Replant.ca