Terrestrial ecozone | Land Use | |||||||||
Industrial | Forestry | Agriculture | Conservation | Infrastructure | Settlement | Recreation | National Defence | Unknown | Other1 | |
Taiga Plains | 19.3 | 4.6 | 51.7 | 11.6 | 22.3 | 53.8 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
Taiga Shield | 28.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 56.7 | 76.7 | 26.7 | 27.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
Boreal Shield | 8.6 | 1.2 | 11.2 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 11.2 | 6.8 | 28.3 | 4.1 | 0.0 |
Atlantic Maritime | 14.8 | 2.1 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 12.8 | 32.1 | 60.2 | 10.9 | 0.0 |
Mixedwood Plains | 26.0 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 14.9 | 7.2 | 12.4 | 23.5 | 100.0 | 33.1 | 0.0 |
Boreal Plains | 17.9 | 1.8 | 4.1 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 14.3 | 7.5 | 18.0 | 5.4 | 0.0 |
Prairies | 9.7 | 8.5 | 1.1 | 10.8 | 4.4 | 14.9 | 51.0 | 30.9 | 7.0 | 0.0 |
Taiga Cordillera | 64.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.1 | 47.9 | 0.0 | 26.7 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.0 |
Boreal Cordillera | 22.3 | 14.9 | 11.5 | 6.9 | 30.6 | 49.4 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
Pacific Maritime | 52.6 | 5.0 | 31.2 | 9.0 | 21.6 | 36.9 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 13.9 | 0.0 |
Montane Cordillera | 41.9 | 2.8 | 11.3 | 5.1 | 9.7 | 26.5 | 3.5 | 99.9 | 6.4 | 0.0 |
Hudson Plains | 30.2 | 3.1 | 69.4 | 1.8 | 65.5 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.1 | 0.0 |
Canada | 6.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 12.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
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. |