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Prince Edward Island

Population (January, 2020)

158,158

Disturbance
Insects (hectares, 2018)
Area defoliated by insects and containing beetle-killed trees	17
Fires (2019)
Area burned (hectares)	9
Number of fires	2

Disturbance sources and information

Insects

Source: National Forestry Database. Forest insects – Forest insects, Table 4.1 Area of moderate to severe defoliation (including beetle-killed trees) by insects. (accessed May 11, 2020).

Notes:

Forest area disturbed by defoliators includes only areas with tree mortality and moderate to severe defoliation. Defoliation does not always imply mortality. For example, stands with moderate defoliation often recover and may not lose much growth.
Defoliation is mapped on an insect species basis, and a given area may be affected by more than one species at a time. This may result in double or triple counting in areas affected by more than one species, exaggerating the extent of the total area defoliation.

Fires

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Forest fires, Table 3.1.1 Number of fires by jurisdiction, cause class, response category, and protection zone. (accessed May 11, 2020).
National Forestry Database. Forest fires, Table 3.1.2 Area burned by jurisdiction, cause class, response category, and protection zone. (accessed May 11, 2020).

Notes:

National data include all burned areas within Canada’s forests. Provincial and territorial data do not include fires within national parks. In 2019, 75 fires burned 117,826 hectares in national parks across Canada. Some of these fires include controlled or prescribed burning for ecological restoration purposes.
The National Forestry Database sources 2019 fire data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).

Forest management
Harvesting (2018)
Area harvested (hectares)	107
Volume harvested (cubic metres)	342,449
Regeneration (hectares, 2018)
Area planted	273
Area seeded	Not available
Third-party certification (hectares, 2019)
Area certified	0

Forest management sources and information

Harvesting

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Harvest, Table 5.1 Net merchantable volume of roundwood harvested by jurisdiction, tenure, category and species group. (accessed May 11, 2020).
National Forestry Database. Harvest, Table 5.2 Area harvested by jurisdiction, tenure, management and harvesting method. (accessed May 11, 2020).

Notes:

The national and provincial/territorial profile figures for harvesting volumes include data for industrial roundwood, pulpwood, logs and bolts, fuel wood and firewood from federal, provincial and territorial Crown land and from private land.
Area harvested data include federal, provincial, territorial and private forest lands.
Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service has estimated the area harvested in Quebec. This value is included in reporting the national area harvested.

Regeneration

Sources:

National Forestry Database. Regeneration, Table 6.2 Area of direct seeding by jurisdiction, tenure and application method. (accessed May 11, 2020).
National Forestry Database. Regeneration, Table 6.2.2 Area planted by jurisdiction, tenure and species group. (accessed May 11, 2020).

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 06, 2020).

Notes:

Previous editions of the State of Canada’s Forests: Annual Report cited the Canadian Council on Ecological Area’s Conservation Areas Reporting and Tracking System (CARTS) as a data source for calculating the area of protected forests in Canada. In 2019, CARTS evolved into the Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), managed by Environment and Climate Change Canada. As a result, the reference for the source of this data has been updated as well.
Protected areas were identified in 2016 by using GIS data collected by the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers for a national project that mapped forest management. The information included data from the Conservation Areas Reporting and Tracking System (CARTS) and from provinces and territories on protected area boundaries and categorization.
- Canadian Council of Forest Ministers. Forest Management in Canada, 2017 Story Map. (accessed May 28, 2020).
- National Forest Inventory. Map of Forest Management in Canada, 2017 version. (accessed May 28, 2020).
- Stinson, G., Thandi, G., et al. 2019. A new approach for mapping forest management areas in Canada. Forestry Chronicle, 95(2):101-112.

Domestic economic impact
Revenue from goods manufactured (dollars, 2018)
Housing starts (2019)	1,504
Logging	10,841,000
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	Not available
Wood product manufacturing	Not available
Total revenue from goods manufactured	Not available

Economic impact sources and information

Canadian housing starts

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 34-10-0126-01 (formerly CANSIM table 027-0009): Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, under construction and completions, all areas. (accessed May 26, 2020).

Note: A rate adjustment is used for economic or business data that attempts to remove seasonal variations in the data. The time of year will affect most data. Adjusting for the seasonality in data enables more accurate month-to-month comparisons. The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) is calculated by dividing the unadjusted annual rate for the month by its seasonality factor and creating an adjusted annual rate for the month. These adjustments are most often used when economic data are released to the public.

Revenue from goods manufactured

Sources:

Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0117-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0008): Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed March 6, 2020).
Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0114-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0009): Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed March 6, 2020).

Note: Revenue from goods manufactured includes revenue from the sale of goods manufactured using materials owned by the establishment, as well as from repair work, manufacturing service charges and work contracted to others.

Forest sector employment
Employment (number, 2019)
Canadian System of National Accounts	Not available
Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours	Not available
Wages and salaries (dollars, 2018)
Logging	1,814,000
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	Not available
Wood product manufacturing	Not available
Total wages and salaries	Not available

Employment sources and information

Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0202-01 (formerly CANSIM 281-0024): Employment by industry, annual. (accessed May 25, 2020).

Notes:

Employment–includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following industries: forestry and logging, support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing.
Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because these data are linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of National Accounts.
SEPH data focuses on industry and can be used for comparing direct company employment in forestry with that in other sectors.

Canadian System of National Accounts

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0489-01 (formerly CANSIM 383-0031): Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), by job category and industry. (accessed June 2, 2020).

Notes:

Data include NAICS 113, 1153, 321, and 322.
Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because these data are linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of National Accounts.
Statistics Canada updated the Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA) in February 2020, which included several changes to the 2018 employment data for NAICS 113, 1153, 321, and 322 that were initially released on May 22nd, 2019. This means that the 2018 SNA data reported here are adjusted from values reported in previous editions of the State of Canada’s Forests: Annual Report.

Wages and salaries

Sources:

Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0117-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0008): Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed March 6, 2020).
Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0114-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0009): Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed March 6, 2020).

Note: Wages and salaries are the earnings, in cash or in kind, of Canadian residents for work performed before deduction of income taxes and contributions to pension funds, employment insurance and other social insurance schemes.

Trade
Value of domestic exports (dollars, 2019)
Balance of trade (total exports, dollars, 2019)	26,888,565
Primary wood products	0
Pulp and paper products	26,731,312
Wood-fabricated materials	179,218
Total value of exports	26,910,530
Value of imports (dollars, 2019)
Primary wood products	0
Pulp and paper products	15,432
Wood-fabricated materials	6,533
Total value of imports	21,965

Trade sources and information

Balance of trade

Source: Statistics Canada. Merchandise trade data (special extraction), monthly data.

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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