Table 21.2b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area 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 ±148.49 ±1 714.27 ±1 253.15 ±1 334.36 ±204.51 ±325.38 ±472.91 ±260.95 ±1 455.16 - ±2 978.02
Boreal ±385.44 ±3 583.18 ±1 023.23 ±2 271.32 ±170.96 ±424.30 ±619.24 ±473.56 ±2 753.72 - ±5 252.96
Canada ±413.05 ±3 972.14 ±1 617.83 ±2 634.28 ±266.55 ±534.70 ±779.17 ±540.69 ±3 114.56 - ±6 038.40
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 3.1, October 2025) (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.