Farron Sharp

Farron Sharp sticks a shovel into the ground as her anchor point to draw a four-metre circumference, then counts how many seedlings are still alive in that circle two years after being planted. The survival assessment is part of an eight-year-long reforestation project that is bringing together members of seven First Nation communities with federal funding and other partners to build a forest near Devils Lake in Manitoba’s Interlake region. “A fully grown forest used to be here and then it became a dead forest…. All of this land was completely black in 2021,” said Sharp, a project manager for Blue-Green Planet Project, a tree-planting company that focuses on sustainability. …The plan is to plant 20 million trees after the area was decimated by a pest and ravaged by a wildfire.