Canada's National Forest Inventory Ground Plot Data

Canada's National Forest Inventory ground plots are a stratified random sample of select Canadian terrestrial ecozones. Ground plots are remeasured periodically. Data from ground plots include field measurements, compiled attributes and descriptions made at a point inside or adjacent to a photo plot. Ground plot data include individual large-tree and small-tree measurements, shrub tallies, understory vegetation sampling, vegetation cover, stump assessments, woody debris data, surface substrates, site descriptions and soil measurements.

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Last Updated January 16, 2026, 20:40 (UTC)
Created January 16, 2026, 20:40 (UTC)
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crisis_categories Canicules
criticality_level Faible
data_formats HTML; WMS
fair_openness Level 2 - Machine-readable
geographic_scope Canada
sensitivity_level Faible
source_inventaire Inventaire_W
source_url https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/35c3556c-e48d-41a7-ac50-652257b0a8e8
subject nature_and_environment
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year_most_recent 2021-09-16 18:00:55.634000
year_start 2021-09-16 18:00:55.634000