Map 1
Treed area disturbance occurring from 1990 to 2020 as percentage of total treed area, by ecoprovince

Map description

The title of the map is "Treed area disturbance occurring from 1990 to 2020 as percentage of total treed area, by ecoprovince"

This map provides a visual representation of the treed area that experienced disturbance in the form of fire or harvest from 1990 to 2020 as a percentage of the total treed area.

The figure is a map of Canada, with ecoprovince boundaries represented by thin grey lines and ecozone boundaries represented by thick black lines. There is a legend in the top right corner and a scale bar in the bottom left corner. Ecoprovinces are labelled.

The 53 ecoprovinces of Canada are categorized in one of five classes, according to the percentage of treed area disturbance. Treed area disturbance is highest in a wide swath of the country from the Atlantic provinces in the southeast to British Columbia and Yukon in the west. The Western Taiga Shield, Western Boreal Shield, Northern Yukon Mountains and Central Montane Cordillera ecoprovinces have the highest percentages. Northern Canada, the Prairie ecoprovinces and southwest Ontario and Quebec have the lowest percentage of treed area disturbance over the period from 1990 to 2020.

Legend: Ecoprovinces are represented using a colour gradient from pale yellow to dark brown. The shading intensity varies, with pale yellow representing ecoprovinces where less than 2% of the total treed area has experienced disturbance and dark brown representing those that have experienced 30% to 44% disturbance. Ecoprovinces with no treed area are shown in grey.

Note(s): Total treed area includes both treed area and treed area that had been disturbed by fire or harvest from 1990 to 2020. Ecoprovinces are labelled. Ecoprovinces are subdivisions of ecozones and are identified with a unique numeric code. The first two digits of the ecoprovince code indicate the ecozone.

Source(s): Environment Accounts and Statistics Division.