Table 4.1. Area (1000 ha) of forest and non-forest land by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Forest land Non-forest land Total
Other
wooded land
Other land with tree cover Other land
Taiga Plains 35 291.58 3 107.00 7.83 18 340.74 56 747.13
Taiga Shield 48 251.58 5 909.99 19.99 55 769.89 109 951.45
Boreal Shield 132 409.59 8 015.10 837.67 22 559.57 163 821.92
Atlantic Maritime 16 678.66 313.08 85.38 2 562.96 19 640.08
Mixedwood Plains 3 422.92 118.77 90.22 7 383.06 11 014.97
Boreal Plains 44 078.74 3 657.35 3 799.85 15 582.17 67 118.11
Prairies 1 530.63 149.00 1 701.08 41 216.36 44 597.06
Taiga Cordillera 6 399.93 1 993.00 0.00 18 043.00 26 435.93
Boreal Cordillera 21 221.73 4 275.99 24.51 20 424.33 45 946.56
Pacific Maritime 11 972.94 286.77 52.40 8 035.76 20 347.88
Montane Cordillera 34 734.11 686.80 522.92 11 541.01 47 484.85
Hudson Plains 11 589.61 8 056.98 66.12 14 839.69 34 552.40
Canada 367 582.02 36 569.83 7 207.96 236 298.53 647 658.34
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.