Table 12.1. Area (1000 ha) of forest land by ownership and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Ownership Total
Federal Provincial Territorial Municipal Indigenous Private Other1
Taiga Plains 672.55 7 662.80 22 209.10 270.88 2 750.94 9.77 25.14 33 601.17
Taiga Shield 170.25 38 195.15 6 263.83 57.05 1 374.09 112.81 119.70 46 292.89
Boreal Shield 456.70 122 466.57 0.00 249.28 667.70 7 342.87 91.61 131 274.73
Atlantic Maritime 241.94 7 134.69 0.00 203.47 0.12 8 712.21 3.23 16 295.67
Mixedwood Plains 13.37 148.06 0.00 0.15 60.54 2 943.65 3.47 3 169.23
Boreal Plains 2 389.82 34 066.48 380.47 49.45 399.63 502.86 665.95 38 454.65
Prairies 10.82 299.20 0.00 39.67 81.89 354.06 412.15 1 197.79
Taiga Cordillera 11.17 0.00 6 013.37 0.00 414.56 0.00 3.79 6 442.88
Boreal Cordillera 63.93 7 943.55 10 067.88 59.89 937.52 10.67 33.03 19 116.46
Pacific Maritime 212.17 9 630.23 0.00 0.00 15.61 823.06 63.04 10 744.09
Montane Cordillera 1 057.81 29 193.35 0.00 0.00 32.97 829.26 15.08 31 128.47
Hudson Plains 96.62 9 649.89 0.00 0.31 66.70 23.99 20.23 9 857.73
Canada 5 397.14 266 389.96 44 934.64 930.15 6 802.26 21 665.21 1 456.41 347 575.76
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, revised 2006 baseline (Version 3, December 2013) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic), and the Taiga Plains and Hudson Plains ecozones located in Nunavut, are not inventoried. These non-inventoried areas total 262,189.89 thousand ha.
1 Missing, unknown or other ownerships.