TOTAL AREA:

* 49 million ha

AREA:

• Forest - 70%
• Non-forest land - 27%
• Water - 3%

• Provincial - 92%
• Federal - 4%
• Private - 4%

* 204 m3/ha (stocked productive forest land)

CLIMATE:

• Annual average temperature in the north is 0.5°C
• Annual average temperature in the south is 7.5°C
• Mild though increased elevation brings lower temperatures to the dry summers and wetter winters
• Western side of the Coast Mountains receive 1200mm to 1500mm of precipitation
• Eastern side of the Coast Mountains receive 300mm precipitation in the south
• Eastern side of the Coast Mountains receive 500mm to 800mm precipitation in the north and the interior
• The Rocky Mountains at the eastern edge of the ecozone receives precipitation which brings 1200mm of precipitation annually to the western side of the mountain
• Moderately long, cold winters and short, warm summers varying with elevation and latitude
• Annual precipitation is about 800mm over the northern...