Garrett's Camp Season
HIGHLIGHTS
Garrett's Camp Season will be 50% BC and 50% AB work. Great opportunity in this camp with solid contracts. The ground will be soft and very few rocks in both provinces.
BC work steeper, but softer ground.
Raw ground, 2-3 species
$0.19 - $0.28 cents
AB flat, soft, flat contracts.
Raw ground, 1-2 species
$0.15 - $0.17 cents
Long season, ~ May 1 to late July/ early August
Wonderful, longstanding cook with a serious passion for food.
Bush Camp. Expecting 4 camp moves and blocks fairly close to camp for efficient, big days!
The Camp's Leadership Team
- Project Manager -
2026 marks my 20th tree-planting season and my 4th season as project manager for NGR. I have also spent the last 11 years planting coastal contracts on North Vancouver Island. I feel a true connection to tree-planting and strive to be a very planter friendly and efficient project manager. My goal every year is to provide a fair, respectful, comfortable and safe quality to both work and camp life. Throughout all my years within the industry I have met some of the best people and hardest workers I ever seen. I've made friendships that have spanned my entire career. I have always been inspired by the work ethic and general awesomeness of tree-planters and this has consistently driven me to work as hard as I can to set all my planters up for successful seasons.
- Crew Leads -
Crew Leads have been working with Garrett for 4 - 15 seasons.
The team is welcoming, professional and hard working.
Mainly seeking experienced planters who have had experience on steeper, higher priced, ground. Limited experience in similar ground is applicable! Similar ground: obstacle plant &/or steep ground.
3+ seasons of experience recommended for people who've not tackled technical or steep ground previously.
Applicable Planters
Health, Safety, Wellness
Next Gen collaborates with planters, staff, and managers to create our culture of safety. Our objective is for all employees to understand their role and significance within the crew community. It also means people are held accountable for supporting safety-first decisions.
We are actively working on having a culture of safety and respect in our work-where-we-live environments. This work is ongoing and progresses with practice, input and continual improvement.
Winner of the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) Outstanding Achievement in Health & Safety in Silviculture for 2021-2023 (an award looking at a three year time period).
We have mandatory online employee health & safety orientation. This outlines expectations across crews and individuals. Our hope is to increase the clarity of expectation and comprehension of important safety points.
Through meetings, conversations and feedback surveys, we ensure that all people who work with Next Gen have a voice and the ability to address any areas of concern. You can effect change in policy moving forward. Psychological Safety - where people are safe to learn, provide feedback, ask questions and make mistakes is important to us as an organization.
Safe Working Guidelines for Weather and Climate factors (such as air quality) and associated Stop Work Conditions - to clarify standards and to help with good, consistent decision making in camps and in the field.
Maintain a company wide Joint Health & Safety Committee (JHSC) and Respectful Conduct Advisory Committee .
Peer Support Network for camps and has Professional Mental Health Support Resources easily accessible to employees.
An ongoing Health, Safety & Wellness goals is to continue work around our Leadership & Staff Team's rest/work balance.
Next Gen is CORE certified with both BC Forest Safe and Alberta Forest Products Association.
Partnership with Total Physio
An excellent physiotherapy office out of Smithers, BC, Total Physio is revolutionizing how planters deal with injury. The team at Total Physio has studied planting, its biomechanics and the etiology of its injuries. They have put together wonderful materials on how best to prepare for planting, effective and realistic ergonomics to prevent injuries and how to tape for both relative-rest and prevention of injury. A paragraph is not enough to describe the amazing work they are doing in silviculture.
Next Gen is partnered with Total Physio. In this, we can provide planters with pre-season materials to prepare for the season. Our First Aid Attendants are armed with game-changing taping techniques. Finally, this partnership allows for the ability to Skype with and consult physios in their office. This facilitates accurate diagnoses of problems and accelerates the return to full fitness.
Food
Next Gen is known in the industry for its food. We have some of the best cooks around, generous portions and wonderful flavours.
Check out our instagram or the photo gallery to get an idea of what there is to offer.
We are passionate about food and our food budget is among the highest in the industry.
We have camps instead of crews
Many planting companies are organized in smaller crew units, six or ten packs run by one foreman.
However, Next Gen does not have fixed crews. We organize planters around available trees. This maximizes productivity and efficiency.
Every morning there is a truck board, similar to the one shown here, letting you know your location, transportation and field staff for the day.
