Table 2.4a. Relative standard errors (%) for area of vegetated land by landscape position and managed forest region in Canada.
Managed forests Treed Non-treed Other1 Total
Upland Wetland Total Alpine Upland Wetland Total
0 37.96 48.54 36.60 - 15.49 30.74 14.35 - 6.97
11 0.62 2.14 0.61 10.89 2.46 2.57 1.81 - 0.61
12 2.06 4.47 1.94 41.94 7.62 4.43 4.11 - 1.72
13 0.87 1.75 0.78 11.91 1.14 1.64 0.94 - 0.56
20 1.59 4.31 1.50 16.72 3.02 3.62 2.32 - 1.20
31 8.03 16.25 7.25 - 18.08 16.28 15.43 - 6.63
32 5.47 15.49 5.17 - 10.42 11.88 8.68 - 4.37
33 2.68 7.89 2.59 30.13 6.65 5.62 4.33 - 2.22
40 2.99 11.79 2.96 54.81 4.08 6.70 3.53 - 2.08
50 1.51 5.82 1.46 - 1.16 3.48 1.11 - 0.89
100 3.13 6.80 2.90 100.87 4.88 7.56 4.30 - 0.57
Canada 0.47 1.19 0.44 6.92 0.73 1.14 0.62 - 0.33
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 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 landscape positions.
Managed forest
Code Description
0 Not available
11 Long term volume or area based Crown timber dispositions
12 Short term volume or area based Crown timber dispositions
13 No current Crown timber dispostions
20 Legal protection status (IUCN class IA, IB, II, III, IV, V, VI equivalent)
31 Reserved by the Federal government for military or other purposes
32 Reserved by the Federal government under the Indian Act
33 Reserved or designated restricted use by provincial or territorial government
40 Aboriginal lands
50 Privately-owned lands
100 Water