Table 12.1. 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 1 291.02 9 450.58 21 958.75 176.36 2 896.77 11.88 71.18 35 856.53
Taiga Shield 152.71 38 848.80 7 393.78 39.39 1 622.87 90.54 104.00 48 252.08
Boreal Shield 511.62 122 080.00 - 297.14 753.71 7 466.73 1 242.94 132 352.15
Atlantic Maritime 218.75 7 519.48 - 176.50 0.12 8 762.45 10.95 16 688.25
Mixedwood Plains 23.71 211.76 - 0.14 70.53 3 114.73 2.89 3 423.76
Boreal Plains 2 347.32 38 405.47 790.53 57.52 435.37 2 033.61 111.09 44 180.91
Prairies 0.63 475.81 - 38.62 69.67 943.30 2.53 1 530.55
Taiga Cordillera 53.46 - 6 239.52 - 396.48 - 1.18 6 690.64
Boreal Cordillera 113.52 9 267.96 10 899.09 47.33 1 072.58 12.71 37.87 21 451.06
Pacific Maritime 185.80 10 342.84 - 88.62 200.11 831.54 124.28 11 773.19
Montane Cordillera 1 140.83 32 084.26 - 51.09 139.55 1 262.15 550.14 35 228.03
Hudson Plains 99.37 10 707.27 - 0.35 61.36 18.64 705.21 11 592.21
Canada 6 138.74 279 394.24 47 281.67 973.07 7 719.11 24 548.26 2 964.26 369 019.35
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 ownerships.