Table 12C.1. Annual change in area (1000 ha) of forest land by ownership and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Ownership Total
Federal Provincial Territorial Municipal Indigenous Private Other1
Taiga Plains 32.01 13.83 -28.37 -6.13 5.11 0.08 2.13 18.66
Taiga Shield 0.13 10.31 30.27 -1.64 14.22 -0.54 0.00 52.76
Boreal Shield 4.47 -125.14 - 6.24 3.02 10.17 101.08 -0.15
Atlantic Maritime 0.06 33.90 - -1.56 0.00 2.79 0.63 35.82
Mixedwood Plains 0.02 5.88 - -0.00 0.93 14.64 -0.05 21.42
Boreal Plains -21.17 81.09 1.69 0.29 0.62 89.66 -55.33 96.85
Prairies 0.06 8.90 - 0.08 0.07 49.62 -35.97 22.76
Taiga Cordillera 1.35 - 2.00 - 1.98 - <0.01 5.34
Boreal Cordillera 4.80 32.94 -1.87 -0.15 1.56 0.18 -0.10 37.36
Pacific Maritime -2.65 47.83 - 8.20 14.20 -2.55 5.49 70.52
Montane Cordillera 3.87 58.68 - 5.08 11.52 36.60 22.08 137.83
Hudson Plains 0.23 -15.94 - <0.01 -0.07 0.05 29.15 13.43
Canada 23.19 152.28 3.73 10.41 53.18 200.71 69.11 512.61
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data, where plots with strong indicators of artificial change are removed. Artificial change between successive plot measurements can be caused by using different image sources, incorporating vintage baseline inventories, and updating photo-interpretation techniques (Version 3.1, November 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 ownerships.