News & Updates

The First Planting Contract: Up The Wildhorse in 1970

Jul
9
Jul
9

By Dirk Brinkman

August 1970, fighting fire as a faller north of Golden, I strapped the slashing contractor whose crew started the fire onto the helicopter skid after a fallen tree cracked his cervical vertebrae-- wiring his hardhat to the stretcher basket as a windfairing to protect him on the long flight to Nelson over the Purcell Mountains. Nearly bankrupt for having to fight the fire with his whole crew on his payroll, he was worrying about the bill for all of the timber burnt when he had his accident. Later that week i took a fall climbing. At that moment I truly met Ted Davis, whose climbing caution i had initially misread as timidness, and suddenly realized was expertize.

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Brinkman Climate presents at BC Community Forest Association AGM

Jun
18
Jun
18

Joseph attended the 2015 BC Community Forest Association AGM conference to speak about the Cheakamus Community Forest Offset Project, and the potential for more community forest offset projects in BC.

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Five Provinces One Season: The Tree-Running Adventures of the Migrating Smoky Tiger

May
10
May
10

Hey Brinkman tribe! I’m honoured to tell the tale of my 2014 season of tree running adventures, one for the record books, for your amazement and amusement. Long, varied, with many a sloping and soggy quad trail, fields of brackies as far as the eye can see, tree boxes, slash piles, and so many stubborn and beautiful planter folk. In the end I traversed five provinces in “Elfmist,” my faithful blue ’82 Volkswagon Westfalia. Looking back, it was truly a season that makes me proud to work with you guys. It made me realize how lucky I am just to be a part of this team.

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Cheakamus Community Forest and B.C. sign carbon offset agreement

Apr
30
Apr
30

Cheakamus Community Forest and B.C have signed an Atmospheric Benefits Sharing Agreement.

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Update for the West Coast: Got Shorts and a Rain Coat?

Apr
16
Apr
16

Every year is different and every year remains the same. We all work, we all have friends and family, and we all have goals and dreams. A select few of us come together for a brief moment in time here in Western Canada, burning calories and candles at both ends, reveling and struggling with our resolve in each day’s effort. We marvel together at having expended enough energy to make a sprint of marathon sized dinners, and sprint each night through our meal to an empty plate and a hot shower.

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Is Tree Planting a World's Toughest Job?: BBC Reality TV in a Brinkman Camp

Mar
31
Mar
31

By Dawn Brinkman

It had been over a year of back and forth with the TV producers and their proposal of a tree planting reality documentary before the three British rookies hit the Prince George tarmac in mid-May of 2014. The premise of the show is how the unemployed youth (18-25) of Britain hold up in the BBC series World’s Toughest Jobs. During this “courtship period” we made it clear how difficult the job is, and outlined the qualities we look for in a rookie planter. We weren’t paid to host the show at our camp, but candidates with work visas could potentially learn how to carry out honest hard work and become fast, money-making returning planters, that is, if they were cut out for the job.

Brinkman Treeplanting BBC World's Toughest Jobs

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