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Northwest Territories

Population (January, 2022)

45,515

Disturbance
Insects (hectares, 2020)
Area defoliated by insects and containing beetle-killed trees	400,690
Fires (2021)
Area burned (hectares)	156,630
Number of fires	140

Disturbance sources and information

Insects

Source: National Forestry Database. Forest insects – Forest insects, Table 4 Area of moderate to severe defoliation (including beetle-killed trees) by insects. (accessed June 21, 2022).

Notes:

Forest area disturbed by defoliators (e.g., budworms, Lymantria dispar) includes only areas with tree mortality or moderate to severe defoliation. Defoliation does not always result in mortality. Several factors, including defoliation severity, duration, and frequency, or presence of other stressors (e.g., drought), can affect the level of mortality.
Forest area disturbed by bark beetles (e.g., mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle) is derived from aerial surveys that map trees that are dead or dying from successful beetle attack.
Summing the areas affected by more than one insect to create a grand total can result in an overestimate if more than one insect species occurs in the same stand in the same year. For example, in a mixedwood forest, spruce budworm may defoliate balsam fir in the same stand where forest tent caterpillar is defoliating the aspen trees.

Fires

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Forest fires, Table 3.1.1, Number of fires by cause class. (accessed June 21, 2022).
National Forestry Database. Forest fires, Table 3.2.1, Area burned by cause class. (accessed June 21, 2022).

Note:

The National Forestry Database sources the latest year’s fire data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre and all years prior from the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System.

Forest management
Harvesting (2020)
Area harvested (hectares)	334
Volume harvested (cubic metres)	36,669
Regeneration (hectares, 2020)
Area planted	Not available
Area seeded	Not available
Third-party certification (hectares, 2021)
Area certified	0

Forest management sources and information

Harvesting

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Harvest, Table 5.1, Net merchantable volume of roundwood harvested by ownership, category and species group. (accessed June 21, 2022).
National Forestry Database. Harvest, Table 5.2, Area harvested by ownership, management and harvesting method. (accessed June 21, 2022).

Notes:

The national and provincial/territorial profile figures for harvesting volumes include data for industrial roundwood, fuelwood and firewood from provincial and territorial Crown land and from private land.
Area harvested data include federal, provincial, territorial and private forest lands.

Regeneration

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Regeneration, Table 6.3, Area of direct seeding by ownership and application method. (accessed June 21, 2022).
National Forestry Database. Regeneration, Table 6.5, Area planted by ownership and species group. (accessed June 21, 2022).

Note: If a forest area has been certified to more than one of the three sustainable forest management standards (Canadian Standards Association, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and Forest Stewardship Council), the area is counted only once. Therefore, the total certification for sustainable forest management standards may be less than the sum of the individual totals for these standards. The independently certified forest area is calculated using Forest Management Units, which include streams, lakes, rivers and roads.

Third-party certification

Source: Certification Canada, Canadian statistics. (accessed May 25, 2022).

Note:

Data obtained from the Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD).

Trade
Value of domestic exports (dollars, 2021)
Balance of trade (total exports, dollars, 2021)	4,647
Primary wood products	0
Pulp and paper products	4,649
Wood-fabricated materials	0
Total value of exports	4,649
Value of imports (dollars, 2021)
Primary wood products	0
Pulp and paper products	0
Wood-fabricated materials	2
Total value of imports	2

Trade sources and information

Balance of trade

Source: Statistics Canada. Merchandise trade data (special extraction, March 8, 2022).

Note: Balance of trade is the difference between the value of the goods and services that a country exports domestically and the value of the goods and services that it imports. If a country’s exports exceed its imports, it has a trade surplus. If its imports exceed exports, the country has a trade deficit.

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