Terrestrial ecozone | Ownership | Total | ||||||
Federal | Provincial | Territorial | Municipal | Indigenous | Private | Other1 | ||
Taiga Plains | 1 289.70 | 8 983.54 | 21 868.79 | 176.10 | 2 892.60 | 9.81 | 71.03 | 35 291.58 |
Taiga Shield | 152.62 | 38 845.50 | 7 393.04 | 39.38 | 1 626.23 | 90.50 | 104.30 | 48 251.57 |
Boreal Shield | 512.11 | 122 160.47 | 0.00 | 305.62 | 753.73 | 7 455.81 | 1 221.85 | 132 409.59 |
Atlantic Maritime | 218.72 | 7 536.34 | 0.00 | 176.84 | 0.12 | 8 741.46 | 5.18 | 16 678.66 |
Mixedwood Plains | 23.71 | 211.73 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 70.52 | 3 113.93 | 2.89 | 3 422.92 |
Boreal Plains | 2 347.66 | 38 342.88 | 790.53 | 57.52 | 435.13 | 2 009.62 | 95.41 | 44 078.74 |
Prairies | 0.63 | 476.09 | 0.00 | 38.60 | 69.65 | 943.17 | 2.48 | 1 530.63 |
Taiga Cordillera | 38.93 | 0.00 | 5 972.96 | 0.00 | 384.37 | 0.00 | 3.67 | 6 399.93 |
Boreal Cordillera | 155.29 | 9 048.32 | 10 868.05 | 47.25 | 1 070.76 | 13.18 | 18.88 | 21 221.73 |
Pacific Maritime | 179.02 | 10 589.09 | 0.00 | 89.42 | 179.98 | 810.11 | 125.31 | 11 972.94 |
Montane Cordillera | 1 140.51 | 31 909.53 | 0.00 | 49.39 | 46.43 | 1 064.89 | 523.37 | 34 734.11 |
Hudson Plains | 99.33 | 10 704.77 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 61.28 | 18.62 | 705.26 | 11 589.61 |
Canada | 6 158.22 | 278 808.26 | 46 893.38 | 980.63 | 7 590.80 | 24 271.11 | 2 879.63 | 367 582.02 |
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 2, November 2022) (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. |