After a shit show with Apex, and a rockin' 4 days with Evergreen, I went up to Prince George to work with Bugbusters. I helped finish one bad contract, then went to one of Bugbuster's best planting contracts. The food was great, the cook entertaining, the land flat, the trees plentiful, and all foremen and the supervisors were cool people. After planting ended in august, there was layout, broadcast spraying, girdling, basal barking, brush cutting, and beetle probing. I asked to be laid off at the end of a contract in Chetwynd on Oct. 28 and they did it.
Some people are still out there doing fall and burn.
I hear there is some dissention in the ranks as there are a few owners who are no longer pulling it for the workers, but for themselves. Bugs has apparently lost a number of excellent workers, foremen, and supervisors because of various problems. They use lots of new vehicles, but lots of old ones as well, and follow the guidelines set out by the labour standards board. The office has always been easy for me to deal with. My hardcore 6 month rookie year is over, but i doubt i will return to Bugs mainly because i only liked planting, and their chemical herbicides made me sick.