Table 14.0. Area (1000 ha) of forest land by species group and age class in Canada.
Species group Age (years) Total
1-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81-100 101-120 121-140 141-160 161-180 181-200 201+ Other1
Other hardwoods 63.69 248.01 452.14 429.07 280.47 107.83 16.67 10.18 1.94 3.30 13.89 4.28 1 631.47
Unspecified hardwoods 1 250.04 370.82 127.72 25.59 47.97 2.27 0.64 - - - - 0.07 1 825.11
Cedar & other conifers 88.29 191.49 360.85 320.77 347.30 251.11 119.42 88.49 85.46 139.92 2 240.76 - 4 233.87
Unspecified conifers 2 445.12 1 636.39 261.43 60.18 8.51 - - - - - - 3.48 4 415.12
Douglas-fir 200.59 213.54 392.16 434.14 694.17 832.12 868.92 709.08 276.29 225.90 934.61 - 5 781.54
Hemlock 225.24 386.61 404.64 295.54 344.27 192.47 210.36 124.56 173.76 115.27 3 759.79 - 6 232.51
Maple 276.19 748.43 2 585.63 2 907.69 2 359.94 541.84 72.25 24.25 20.96 - 1.50 0.17 9 538.84
Larch 462.10 1 186.53 1 973.32 2 041.86 1 707.72 1 127.08 603.76 379.23 75.37 30.76 87.17 14.36 9 689.26
Birch 1 505.44 2 741.58 3 182.74 2 813.41 2 386.59 757.15 162.31 53.23 4.37 3.66 7.00 2.52 13 620.01
Unclassified 127.51 93.86 3.85 4.53 1.60 1.49 1.07 0.74 0.12 - - 16 627.30 16 862.09
Fir 891.48 2 988.23 3 425.71 2 824.56 3 367.26 1 650.47 1 576.52 1 240.24 1 085.96 794.35 4 585.31 4.38 24 434.47
Poplar 4 297.86 5 583.88 6 102.11 9 787.76 8 415.51 3 535.08 1 233.42 417.49 54.05 33.45 56.47 0.73 39 517.80
Pine 6 079.24 8 791.79 5 638.09 6 346.02 5 330.43 3 568.65 2 676.92 1 395.71 597.38 286.54 794.47 4.30 41 509.54
Spruce 3 548.87 12 895.15 21 541.85 25 854.57 27 963.84 43 633.31 35 684.13 11 829.68 2 085.40 709.67 3 915.76 65.48 189 727.71
Subtotal 21 461.65 38 076.32 46 452.22 54 145.69 53 255.60 56 200.89 43 226.40 16 272.90 4 461.06 2 342.81 16 396.74 16 727.07 369 019.35
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 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 or unknown age class.