Uprooted

Glossary

GLOSSARY

Bag Up (aka Bagging Up): To fill your empty planting bags with seedlings.

Block (aka. Cutblock): The section of land that a company has logged and which needs to be reforested.

Bush Camp (aka. Camp): A well-outfitted camp includes a kitchen tent, a mess tent (dining area), a first aid tent, shower tents, a drying tent (with heaters for wet clothes), and outhouses (or “shitters”). This camp might only be used for a few days, or it could stay in place for up to a couple of months on a longer contract.

Cache: A cache is a short-term holding area for boxes of trees. Made by lashing three tall logs together to form an A-frame, which is then covered with a white, reflective tarp (Silvicool Tarp) that shields the trees from both sun and rain.

Cache Break: A break during the day to refuel, drink water, or bag up at the cache.

Cache Slut: Someone who hangs out at the cache for long periods, not planting, and waiting for other people to hang out with.

Christmas Toe: Numbness in the big toe that lasts until Christmas.

Clusterfuck:

1) When multiple planters go into the last remaining pieces to finish a block.

2) A situation where multiple things are going wrong.

Cream or Creamshow: Easy-to-plant land.

Dog Fucker (aka Cache Slut): A lazy planter.

Double Plant: To unknowingly plant two trees very close to each other.

Flagging Tape: Rolls of long, thin coloured plastic strips used to mark where a planter has placed a tree or to partition off the land being planted.

Gong Show: A disorganized and poorly managed contract or day.

Highballer: Someone who plants a very large number of trees per day.

Jesus Juice: A mixture of cheap vodka and grape juice.

J-root: A bent seedling root plug after being planted.

Pounding: Planting as hard and fast as you can.

Prepped: Land that has been prepared for planting by some sort of machinery.

Raw (see unscarified): Ground left just as it was after it was logged.

Reefer: The truck in which trees are stored or transported (typically refrigerated).

Rookie: A first-time planter.

Schnarb: Slang for the annoying obstacles and vegetation present on some land, including logs, fallen trees, tall grasses, bushes, etc. Schnarb is similar to slash but usually includes living plants as well as logging debris.

Silvicool Tarp: A white reflective tarp used to shade a cache of trees.

Slash: The debris left on the ground after logging.

Trenches: Rows of prepped ground created by a trenching machine.

Veteran: An experienced tree planter.

Welcome to tree planting…