Table 4.1. Area (1000 ha) of forest and non-forest land by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Forest land Non-forest land Total
Other
wooded land
Other land with tree cover Other land
Taiga Plains 33 601.17 3 006.48 97.32 20 033.63 56 738.60
Taiga Shield 46 292.89 7 675.60 20.73 56 049.51 110 038.72
Boreal Shield 131 274.73 6 620.42 1 024.63 25 106.03 164 025.81
Atlantic Maritime 16 295.67 604.29 56.67 2 715.58 19 672.21
Mixedwood Plains 3 169.23 221.86 138.92 7 531.58 11 061.59
Boreal Plains 38 454.65 4 277.86 5 549.88 18 808.37 67 090.77
Prairies 1 197.79 5.69 913.62 42 980.07 45 097.16
Taiga Cordillera 6 442.88 1 784.20 0.04 18 230.32 26 457.44
Boreal Cordillera 19 116.46 5 120.48 21.27 21 675.10 45 933.31
Pacific Maritime 10 744.09 107.18 128.34 9 350.57 20 330.19
Montane Cordillera 31 128.47 580.40 480.71 15 267.80 47 457.39
Hudson Plains 9 857.72 10 861.20 66.83 13 664.62 34 450.37
Canada 347 575.76 40 865.66 8 498.96 251 413.18 648 353.56
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.