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. |