She's nine years old and wants to make the world a better place one tree at a time.
Fluffy is Robyn Bennett's favourite tree and her wish for the little spruce is for Fluffy to live long and prosper and that's what she put on the copper tag that is now attached to the spruce seedling.
Robyn is one of 18 cub scouts in the First Prince George Cubs troop who planted 100 trees at Camp Echo, located on Summit Lake, which is a 7.5-acre Scout property on a 30-year lease from the Crown and has been a Scout property since the 1960s according to historical documents, Teresa Bennett, Robyn's mom, said.
Robyn, who's been in Scouts for two years, led the tree-planting charge and her reasons are very clear.
"Ever since forest fires became a major deal in B.C. I wanted to help," Robyn said. "Trees make us breathe. They get us fresh air and I really care about it. If people don't care about the trees and just chop them down every place we're going to end up having smoky air and I don't like the idea of that."
Last year's forest fires came much too close to home for Robyn.
"The fires burned up a lot of trees and we need them," she said.
Since 1972, Scouts Canada has had a program in place where Scouts are encouraged to plant trees every spring to focus on conservation and restoration. According to the Scoutrees website, more than 80 million trees have been planted in Canada at Scout camps like Robyn's troop's trees, in provincial parks, on Crown land and in conservation areas.
The process of planting trees provides youth an education in environmental stewardship of the land as they are required to check on their trees four times per season. This provides the opportunity for the young cub scouts, who are eight to 10 years old, to learn about the critical role trees play in places like Camp Echo, which is located at the headwaters of the Crooked River watershed, offering the Scouts a first-hand look at the importance of the lake and the animals that rely on it to survive.
There's definitely some perks to being a cub scout, Robyn said.
"Just being outside, helping the world, planting trees, all of that really gets me worked up and excited," she said. "I'll be doing this for my whole life."
