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 1 289.70 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.