Another really interesting figure from that article: > 3,500 people are slinging seedlings into soil [...] > punching about 80 baby trees a second That works

Another really interesting figure from that article: > 3,500 people are slinging seedlings into soil [...] > punching about 80 baby trees a second That works out to about 1.3 minutes of work per tree planted. They do note that it's skilled labour - it takes a few seasons experience to hit those rates. But BC conditions may not be the friendliest, either. Hitting similar totals in a day instead of six months, but with perhaps 2-3 orders of magnitude more people is an extremely impressive effort!