The NFI brochure provides a succinct overview of the purpose and design of Canada's National Forest Inventory.
NFI Brochure.pdf (PDF, 4.5MB)

NFI Infographic (PDF, 1.24MB)

NFI data have been used to produce a suite of continuous maps of forest properties.

To view maps, click here.

To access these data products, please click here.

For more information, please refer to Beaudoin et al. (2017) Tracking forest attributes across Canada between 2001 and 2011 using a k nearest neighbors mapping approach applied to MODIS imagery. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=38979

• Preliminary attribution of forest area, volume, and primary forest estimates through the National Forest Inventory baseline (2000-2006) and first remeasurement (2007-2017)
• Six Decades of forest inventory data highlight decline of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) sampling abundance in Eastern Canada
• Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs
• Decadal decline in forest floor soil organic carbon after clear-cutting in Nordic and Canadian forests
• ABoVE: Landsat-derived Annual Dominant Land Cover in Boreal North America, 1986-2020

The NFI online biomass calculators have been updated to use the latest biomass models.

The new version of the NFI first remeasurement data reports and the annual change reports are available. You can download here.