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Not an expert on this but...
Forests usually recover just fine after a fire. They're a natural process after all. You don't need to go throw seeds around to help it recover.
Of course, with the advent of climate change that's no longer true in all cases, with drier areas burning hotter than previously and destroying old growth forests.
The thing is, you can't just throw around "big old tree" seeds - you raise seedlings / saplings and then plant them in appropriate places.
Additionally, even if you were trying to spread seeds around, IDK whether a dog could achieve an even or even a random spread. Unpredictable yes, but not random.
So, cute dogs and stuff, bit I think this is a pretty niche application and not often required in forestry.
Yeah, also I don't know if they are biologists/foresters but hopefully they use native or at least compatible seeds for the areas. There are lots of grass types which can become invasive and destroy habitat for the local wildlife if they use the wrong species.
Where I live we just use helicopters, and mostly only because it's mountainous so we want to establish the grass back as quickly as possible before the rain hits and washes all the soil away into the rivers.