For a little more then a month now I'v been living out of the back of my car working up in Laramie, WY for Tiger Tree Land Management. Attempting to get a handle on the Western Pine Bark Beetle infestation that has spread to epidemic levels in the past years of drought and fire prevention, we cut and clear infested areas and spray healthy trees to prevent infestation. The insecticide we spray is non-harmful to mammals but decimates aquatic life all most instantly. So incidentally we are unable to save trees that chose the easy life and grew near any active water source. We work basically on an on-call schedule, or you could say, we work when its not windy, raining, freezing, or to much snow on the ground, but you must remember, this is Wyoming. Sometimes it seems like we would get better coverage if we stood in Utah and sprayed up in the air. My crew, the Green Sprayers, is made up of a great group of people, and we have a great time working together. Although right now were all spread out trying to get the U-dub campus sprayed. Lavaughn, our truck (the 550) supervisor from Utah is on his second summer with TTLM, and has worked in Alaska at a fish plant and in the oil fields around Wyoming, Funny dude, its awesome. Jeremy, from Tennessee got hired on the same time as me. He was in the Navy as a Coreman for seven years and has wife and two daughters, and being in the military he has more stories then you can shake a stick at. I'm probably going to laugh a few more years on to my life working with him. Rosanne, from Organ and the only girl on the working side of the business. She worked on the fire crew up in Organ for three summers and then did something for Verizon Wireless down in SoCal for a while, decided that California isn't for everyone and moved to the one and only great city of Fort Collins where she is in the process of trying to go to school. And of course Me, and i love my my job.
