Terrestrial ecozone | Land Use | Total | |||||||||
Industrial | Forestry | Agriculture | Conservation | Infrastructure | Settlement | Recreation | National Defence | Unknown | Other1 | ||
Taiga Plains | 6.09 | 5 744.64 | 9.15 | 1 634.98 | 10.09 | 3.96 | 5 255.44 | 0.00 | 44 082.79 | 0.00 | 56 747.13 |
Taiga Shield | 156.44 | 49 734.31 | 0.00 | 7 498.39 | 32.36 | 26.40 | 251.70 | 365.64 | 51 886.21 | 0.00 | 109 951.45 |
Boreal Shield | 1 483.74 | 112 279.50 | 1 081.14 | 31 158.03 | 1 933.98 | 1 201.41 | 4 962.77 | 373.17 | 9 348.18 | 0.00 | 163 821.92 |
Atlantic Maritime | 46.27 | 14 715.35 | 1 444.77 | 1 699.63 | 532.12 | 290.28 | 237.78 | 71.99 | 601.89 | 0.00 | 19 640.08 |
Mixedwood Plains | 45.59 | 3 382.05 | 5 911.55 | 366.79 | 579.95 | 589.88 | 49.60 | 2.34 | 87.22 | 0.00 | 11 014.97 |
Boreal Plains | 724.90 | 39 124.51 | 12 701.89 | 7 121.61 | 408.33 | 998.83 | 1 632.39 | 1 053.42 | 3 352.22 | 0.00 | 67 118.11 |
Prairies | 740.33 | 1 342.83 | 37 561.13 | 1 731.17 | 358.66 | 932.18 | 10.40 | 403.87 | 1 516.51 | 0.00 | 44 597.06 |
Taiga Cordillera | 4.81 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2 442.00 | 1.90 | 0.00 | 407.49 | 0.00 | 23 579.74 | 0.00 | 26 435.93 |
Boreal Cordillera | 192.10 | 1 037.99 | <0.01 | 6 268.94 | 34.11 | 41.29 | 7 959.64 | 0.00 | 30 412.48 | 0.00 | 45 946.56 |
Pacific Maritime | 4.67 | 7 043.98 | 241.63 | 3 179.71 | 47.48 | 124.90 | 8 013.65 | 0.00 | 1 691.86 | 0.00 | 20 347.88 |
Montane Cordillera | 48.19 | 18 032.22 | 1 248.84 | 9 876.38 | 97.76 | 206.45 | 13 267.02 | 6.43 | 4 701.55 | 0.00 | 47 484.85 |
Hudson Plains | 31.20 | 12 916.79 | 1.29 | 20 942.86 | 14.83 | 194.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 451.26 | 0.00 | 34 552.40 |
Canada | 3 484.33 | 265 354.16 | 60 201.38 | 93 920.50 | 4 051.56 | 4 609.75 | 42 047.87 | 2 276.87 | 171 711.91 | 0.00 | 647 658.34 |
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 land uses. |