That’s very good of you to volunteer as steward of that small future woodlot, and smart that you have planted several species of trees to increase the likelihood that at least some of the species will survive if attacked. Are you using that soil in the wheel barrow to cover your corduroy or are you using the corduroy to get the wheel barrow across for another project?? In any event that corduroy looks plenty tough to handle anything your wheel barrow will handle. That Western Red Cedar appears to be sitting in, or rooting in, a pickle jar of water. Is that site where you will plant it?? The protective mesh surrounding it makes me think you have a rabbit or deer problem but maybe it is just to keep the seedling from tipping over.
That bright red shovel looks hard to “handle” but you’ll never misplace it. LOL!!! I’m wondering if you have seeded what appears to be some of the rye grasses for erosion control or if it is strictly volunteer?
I understand the great feeling one gets from giving back to nature what man has taken away. Good for you my friend. There are other things that are as precious as ……………. Silverngold