For many young Canadians,planting tlrees is more than just a job. It's a way of 1 —and itcould be catching on,thanks to a popular2 by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the 3 method that allowed her to plant 4, 545 trees in asingle day. She said that the summer work is incredibly 4 . Many college students are 5 totree planting as a summer job,for which they receive 13-27 cents per tree.
ln Canada,planting tree is not easy work ,according to Leslie. Not only is it6 tiring,butit also7 laborers to the bad weather.
"lIt could start the day off8 and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. Younever know what to9 , " she described. "There were some days that we were planting through aheat 10 , so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really11 . "
Leslie has also had to 12 being bitten by mosquitoes while walking through rocky places. Then,there's the threat of local wildlife becoming 13 . While Leslie herself has only seen mostlarge animals from a distance, a 21-year-old woman performing the same14 just survived a bearattack last week.
So far,Leslie has planted a total of 372, 290 trees in the past few years. 15 , she's stillnowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor 16 Kenny Chaplin,who onceplanted 15, 170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job,he says he'd 17 it to anyone. "I think every parent in Canada should be18 their kid out tree planting because it will takeyour child and it'll turn them into a worker, " he 19 . "They'll learn how to work, and they'll have20 . They'll have money in their pockets. "