Provincial and Territorial Profiles

New Brunswick

FOREST AND FOREST MANAGEMENT STATISTICS	New Brunswick	CANADA
HARVEST & WOOD SUPPLY (2020)
Total Crown Land	3,362,000	-
Productive forest Crown Land	3,050,000	-
Area available for harvest	2,901,000	-
Area harvested (hectares)	79,047 e	710,332.735 E
Wood Supply/Potential Harvest (cubic metres)	9,053,976 E	215,312,744 E
Provincial contribution of wood supply to total national wood supply	4%	-
Net Merchantable Volume of Roundwood Harvested (cubic metres)	9,341,187 E	143,061,196.4 E
Provincial contribution of roundwood harvested to total national roundwood harvested	6%	-
FOREST FIRES (2021)
Area burned (hectares)	427 e	4,307,520.1 p
Number of forest fires	180 e	6,596 p
FOREST INSECTS (2020)
Area of moderate to severe defoliation and beetle-killed trees by major insects (hectares)	-	1,776,8618 e
Insect disturbing the largest area	Spruce Budworm	Spruce Budworm
REGENERATION (2020)
Area of site preparation and scarification (hectares)	11,702 u	174,466.79 e
Area planted (hectares)	12,384 u	422,363 e
Number of seedlings planted (thousands)	23,481,681 u	624,818,414 e
Area seeded (hectares)	-	9,210 e
REVENUES (2020)
Revenues from the sale of timber	-	$2,337,129,191 E
PEST CONTROL PRODUCT USE (2020)
Total area treated with insecticide (hectares)	9,920 e	169,558 E
Total area treated with herbicide (hectares)	-	53,772.32 E