Table 21.2. Area (1000 ha) of land by land use and boreal zone in Canada.
Boreal zone Land Use Total
Industrial Forestry Agriculture Conservation Infrastructure Settlement Recreation National Defence Unknown Other1
Non-boreal 896.57 58 073.26 48 332.18 21 170.15 2 393.73 2 028.87 2 675.90 480.12 39 091.34 - 175 142.11
Boreal 2 591.27 203 002.58 11 803.65 72 495.41 1 668.04 2 471.05 4 262.30 1 791.80 180 774.93 - 480 861.03
Canada 3 487.84 261 075.85 60 135.83 93 665.56 4 061.76 4 499.91 6 938.20 2 271.92 219 866.27 - 656 003.14
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data< (Version 3, November 2023) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Non-boreal zone in the Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic) are not inventoried. The total land and water area amounts to approximately 252,202.08 thousand ha.
1 Missing, unknown or other land uses.