Table 21.1. Area (1000 ha) of land by land use and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Land Use Total
Industrial Forestry Agriculture Conservation Infrastructure Settlement Recreation National Defence Unknown Other1
Taiga Plains 0.31 4 420.51 163.23 1 626.47 0.00 3.88 6 449.88 0.00 44 074.32 0.00 56 738.60
Taiga Shield 38.91 50 226.33 5.94 7 415.81 33.26 26.32 252.06 366.01 51 674.07 0.00 110 038.72
Boreal Shield 180.48 124 668.73 1 163.60 24 245.98 4 046.48 1 369.73 2 201.47 382.71 5 766.61 0.00 164 025.81
Atlantic Maritime 82.18 14 877.30 1 457.55 1 072.41 1 124.67 206.76 193.34 74.84 583.16 0.00 19 672.21
Mixedwood Plains 48.76 3 276.25 5 939.62 313.86 799.06 537.62 55.38 0.00 91.04 0.00 11 061.59
Boreal Plains 48.71 36 013.87 15 044.78 6 784.19 502.85 937.21 3 481.00 1 057.09 3 221.08 0.00 67 090.78
Prairies 0.00 1 067.75 36 920.63 1 657.52 1 476.46 788.17 42.32 403.38 2 740.93 0.00 45 097.16
Taiga Cordillera 1.33 0.00 0.00 2 621.27 1.49 0.15 0.00 0.00 23 833.21 0.00 26 457.44
Boreal Cordillera 5.10 890.85 12.15 6 031.83 51.83 30.61 14 599.92 0.00 24 311.01 0.00 45 933.31
Pacific Maritime 0.00 5 322.39 284.73 2 048.99 0.00 98.30 11 720.44 0.00 855.34 0.00 20 330.19
Montane Cordillera 35.90 5 959.20 1 162.03 7 602.53 0.00 261.40 31 447.88 30.04 958.42 0.00 47 457.39
Hudson Plains 31.16 11 881.12 0.00 22 088.01 15.81 192.81 0.00 0.00 241.47 0.00 34 450.37
Canada 472.84 258 604.30 62 154.25 83 508.86 8 051.92 4 452.96 70 443.69 2 314.07 158 350.66 0.00 648 353.56
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 land uses.