Table 4.1b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area 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 ±944.04 ±257.49 ±6.40 ±809.86 ±1 270.21
Taiga Shield ±1 126.96 ±372.21 ±37.82 ±1 190.16 ±1 681.22
Boreal Shield ±1 418.22 ±423.63 ±232.77 ±897.41 ±1 746.52
Atlantic Maritime ±333.46 ±47.17 ±32.88 ±298.84 ±451.45
Mixedwood Plains ±368.14 ±31.95 ±41.72 ±575.35 ±685.07
Boreal Plains ±1 195.94 ±336.03 ±517.94 ±959.59 ±1 652.96
Prairies ±276.28 ±47.20 ±225.27 ±491.99 ±609.39
Taiga Cordillera ±590.30 ±311.51 - ±655.54 ±935.53
Boreal Cordillera ±1 009.77 ±518.79 ±32.31 ±1 066.61 ±1 558.03
Pacific Maritime ±704.04 ±97.37 ±10.02 ±720.42 ±1 012.06
Montane Cordillera ±884.09 ±126.18 ±143.62 ±850.02 ±1 241.25
Hudson Plains ±665.87 ±467.39 ±51.62 ±582.10 ±1 001.67
Canada ±3 002.44 ±1 054.86 ±633.97 ±2 758.38 ±4 258.87
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.