Flash Forest scatters millions of seeds across Canada's wildfire-damaged landscapes

Canadian company Flash Forest planted 686,147 trees across five sites in 2025 covering 429 hectares of burned forest in northern Quebec using drone-deployed biodegradable seed pods, following the 2023 wildfire season when 4.5 million hectares of forest burned; the team worked with the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree First Nation to collect approximately 8.5 million jack pine seeds from trees during winter operations in temperatures as low as -30°C.

Germination remains dependent on conditions at each planting site.