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 35 856.53 2 649.00 5.73 18 228.03 56 739.29
Taiga Shield 48 252.08 5 909.61 19.99 55 784.52 109 966.20
Boreal Shield 132 352.15 8 060.52 833.93 22 702.56 163 949.16
Atlantic Maritime 16 688.25 312.32 85.59 2 555.46 19 641.62
Mixedwood Plains 3 423.76 119.02 90.24 7 384.23 11 017.25
Boreal Plains 44 180.91 3 720.85 3 776.07 15 425.42 67 103.25
Prairies 1 530.55 149.00 1 701.17 41 216.41 44 597.12
Taiga Cordillera 6 690.64 1 713.65 - 18 030.65 26 434.94
Boreal Cordillera 21 451.06 3 966.77 24.55 20 502.76 45 945.14
Pacific Maritime 11 773.19 362.29 9.29 8 177.42 20 322.19
Montane Cordillera 35 228.03 711.54 217.30 11 323.41 47 480.26
Hudson Plains 11 592.21 8 055.83 66.14 14 846.05 34 560.24
Canada 369 019.35 35 730.40 6 830.00 236 176.92 647 756.67
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data< (Version 3, November 2023) (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.