In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was hired (reluctantly) by his older sister's boyfriend--a treeplanting contractor based in Northern British Columbia. His crewmates didn't know what to think of the wide-eyed kid whose mom drove him the 750 kilometres to hook up with his first job. But within a week, Nolan was hitting the thousand-trees-a-day mark. By the end of his first rookie season, he gained the status of top producer among a crew of extraordinary...