Marley Moose is spending her third summer planting trees in northern Manitoba as part of a crew trying to help Mother Nature regenerate forests destroyed by wildfires.

But that goal has become more challenging with the cancellation of a federal program that aimed to plant two billion trees by 2030.

“Everywhere around me is burnt, but it’s where life used to be, so we’re back here giving life back to these dead areas,” said Moose, 22, efficiently digging a hole and slipping tiny jack pine and black spruce trees into the ground.