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The forests of Canada are located across much of the country. Approximately half of Canada is covered by forest, totaling around 2.4 million km 2 (0.93 million sq mi). [1] Over 90% of Canada's forests are owned by the public (Crown land and Provincial forest). About half of the forests are allocated for logging.
Forestry is a major industry in Canada, contributing over $24.6 billion in GDP to the economy in 2017. [9] In the same year, over 209,940 people were directly employed by the forestry industry, contributing 1.1 percent of total employment. [9] The majority of forestry employees are found in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario, [10] and for the ...
Haliburton Forest. Haliburton Forest & Wild Life Reserve Ltd. is a 300-square-kilometre (120 sq mi) forest in Haliburton County, Ontario. Forestry operations within the reserve are certified by the international Forest Stewardship Council in Canada. Haliburton Forest also supports ecosystem-based research projects, primarily conducted by the ...
Canada's national forest inventory includes many native conifer species. [1] [a] All except the larches are evergreens. [3] Most are in the pine family, except for yews (in the yew family) and junipers, Alaska cedars and thuja cedars (in the cypress family ). [4] [5] [6] [b] Softwood from North American conifers has a variety of commercial uses.
The Mixedwood Plains Ecozone is the Canadian ecozone with the most southern extent, covering all of southwestern Ontario, and parts of central and northeastern Ontario and southern Quebec along the Saint Lawrence River. It was originally dominated by temperate deciduous forest growing mostly on limestone covered by glacial till.
The Canadian boreal forest is a very large bio-region that extends in length from the Yukon-Alaska border right across the country to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in width (north to south) separating the arctic tundra region from the various landscapes of southern Canada. The taiga growth (as defined in North ...
In 1906, the Canadian government passed the first Dominion Forest Reserves Act, which officially established the Porcupine Forest Reserve as a national forest. They hired forest rangers and built a headquarters at Ushta, Saskatchewan. Many of the first rangers were either forestry engineers from the University of New Brunswick, First World War ...
Over 90% of the sprawling boreal forest of Canada is provincial Crown land. Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [2] 94% of the land in British Columbia , [3] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador , [4] and 48% of New Brunswick .