Crown Land: Indicators and Statistics - Ministry of Forests

The distribution of land uses and cover types also varies across the natural resource sector sub-regions.
• The Cariboo sub-region has the highest proportion of forested land, with forests covering almost 80% of
the sub-region’s total land base;
• The Thompson-Okanagan sub-region has the highest proportion of rangeland;
• The highest proportion of permanent human uses are found in the West Coast sub-region (dominated by
urban development) and the Thompson-Okanagan sub-region (dominated by agriculture);
• The Peace sub-region has the highest proportion of wetlands, at 12% of the sub-region’s total land base;
and
• The Skeena sub-region contains almost 40% of BC’s total alpine area land base. Alpine areas make up 21%
of the Skeena sub-region’s land base.
Additional Information
• GeoBC provides information about Baseline Thematic Mapping.
Available: http://archive.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/cis/initiatives/ias/btm/index.html
• Baseline Thematic Mapping is utilized in Environmental Trends in British Columba 2007 (pp. 232-233).
Available: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/et07/EnvironmentalTrendsBC_2007.pdf
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