Some Facts About Forestry

 

- Forests cover about 42% of Canada's total area

- Forests are maininly in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick

- The forest industry provides 360 000 jobs

- The Forest Industry also provides 500 000 indirect jobs

- The forest industry provides 81 billion dollars worth of pulp and paper on other foreste products (2004)

- More than half of canadas forest products are exported to other contries

- Softwood forests make up 66% of Canada's forest cover

- Hardwood forests make up 12% of Canada's forest cover

- The remaining 22% are made up of mixed forests

- Canada has 10% of all the forests in the world

- Canada has 30% of the worlds boreal forests

- Canada has 396.9 million hectares of forest