Fire Management in the Boreal Forests of Canada

Abstract

The boreal forest dominates the Canadian landscape, as it often dominates the world's view of Canada as a country of vast unpopulated forests. The boreal forest region (Rowe 1972) sweeps across the country in a giant curve, covering almost 530 million ha of forestlands in portions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories (NWT), British Columbia, the prairie provinces, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, and Labrador (see Fig. 14.1). Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are the only provinces that do not have a true boreal forest component.