Table 2.1. Area (1000 ha) of vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Treed Non-treed Other1 Total
Upland Wetland Total Alpine Upland Wetland Total
Taiga Plains 30 009.83 6 549.77 36 559.60 83.77 10 342.22 6 623.20 17 049.18 - 65 768.07
Taiga Shield 44 874.18 3 728.68 48 602.86 14.73 40 218.16 11 274.25 51 507.14 - 139 322.81
Boreal Shield 107 930.61 21 927.74 129 858.35 1.78 16 338.84 15 709.06 32 049.68 - 192 107.28
Atlantic Maritime 15 489.48 627.68 16 117.16 - 2 183.03 644.51 2 827.54 - 20 157.09
Mixedwood Plains 3 001.78 347.66 3 349.45 - 5 690.31 346.94 6 037.26 - 16 854.12
Boreal Plains 35 170.46 13 437.97 48 608.43 - 9 545.72 5 974.40 15 520.12 - 74 072.06
Prairies 2 802.01 146.90 2 948.91 - 31 382.29 1 603.84 32 986.13 - 46 659.21
Taiga Cordillera 6 381.56 205.18 6 586.73 1 469.80 10 414.49 576.14 12 460.43 - 26 705.15
Boreal Cordillera 19 721.55 939.55 20 661.11 1 647.21 11 316.84 924.42 13 888.47 - 47 080.86
Pacific Maritime 11 631.89 7.33 11 639.23 274.62 1 737.88 63.09 2 075.59 - 20 876.03
Montane Cordillera 33 275.34 116.07 33 391.41 761.97 6 281.04 292.02 7 335.03 - 48 978.41
Hudson Plains 8 259.29 10 627.72 18 887.01 - 3 198.00 12 232.79 15 430.79 - 37 197.57
Canada 318 547.98 58 662.26 377 210.24 4 253.86 148 648.81 56 264.68 209 167.35 - 735 778.65
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 landscape positions.