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3.3 Status
Status refers to the status of land with respect to timber harvesting. Land may be reserved from timber
harvesting by law (e.g., within a national park), management of the land may be retained by the owner
(e.g., harvest allocation through quota or licences), or it may be delegated to another agency (assigned;
e.g., via forest management agreements).
Table 9 lists the area of forest and other wooded land by status and province and territory; Table 10
lists the area of forest by the same classes. Five percent of the area of forest and other wooded land in
Canada is reserved from forest harvesting (Figure 14). Figure 15 shows that the percentage of reserved
forest land in Alberta is highest among the provinces and territories at about 12%, whereas Prince Edward
Island has the lowest percent of reserved forest land (other than Nunavut)—this is mainly because it has
such a high proportion of private forest (Appendix I: Table I-3).
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Other
nonreserved
7%
Retained
67%
Reserved
5%
20
Assigned
21%
Figure 14. Area of forest and other wooded land by status class in Canada.
NL NS PE NB QC ON MB SK AB BC YT NT NU
Figure 15. Relative proportion of forest land by status class in each province and territory.
Other
Retained
Assigned
Reserved