Table 12.1b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area of forest land by ownership and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Ownership Total
Federal Provincial Territorial Municipal Indigenous Private Other1
Taiga Plains ±353.03 ±395.95 ±949.72 ±120.05 ±494.59 ±16.67 ±71.52 ±1 203.24
Taiga Shield ±140.51 ±991.04 ±551.19 ±56.11 ±333.00 ±80.89 ±60.09 ±1 195.79
Boreal Shield ±257.98 ±1 654.84 - ±137.04 ±262.30 ±840.42 ±399.84 ±1 938.76
Atlantic Maritime ±155.44 ±708.43 - ±125.09 ±0.23 ±647.83 ±8.09 ±980.53
Mixedwood Plains ±27.59 ±126.80 - ±0.27 ±68.45 ±346.94 ±1.48 ±376.69
Boreal Plains ±515.87 ±1 321.99 ±161.44 ±43.21 ±201.19 ±302.56 ±74.64 ±1 476.24
Prairies ±1.24 ±184.28 - ±36.58 ±50.98 ±176.21 ±3.60 ±262.60
Taiga Cordillera ±39.36 - ±588.87 - ±173.63 - ±1.63 ±615.20
Boreal Cordillera ±104.12 ±670.56 ±760.64 ±65.72 ±319.99 ±16.07 ±69.53 ±1 072.79
Pacific Maritime ±146.44 ±713.60 - ±94.32 ±147.88 ±306.56 ±117.02 ±817.99
Montane Cordillera ±323.59 ±970.98 - ±64.36 ±80.45 ±254.21 ±244.09 ±1 087.35
Hudson Plains ±83.17 ±653.83 - ±0.70 ±67.76 ±23.56 ±282.41 ±720.63
Canada ±804.64 ±2 916.53 ±1 468.73 ±269.35 ±798.46 ±1 239.02 ±576.30 ±3 726.68
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.