My partner used to work for these folks, he'd say you were getting paid 9-13 cents to bend over. Folks making $200-350/day planting 2000-4000 trees each, with camps 60-100 people; summit runs multiple camps. It's quite the lifestyle, some planting camps are a bit of a wild place.
"Planting trees is one of the most physically demanding jobs in North America."<p>They have a fairly serious preconditioning program :<p><a href="https://www.summitplanting.com/plantingfitness.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.summitplanting.com/plantingfitness.html</a>