Forests and their management can affect the quantity and quality of water moving through catchments. Although providing many positive benefits, forests have the potential to negatively impact on the environment. Impacts are largely related to poor management or to planting on unsuitable soils, and many of the current water problems associated with afforestation are a legacy of old practices, which have been subsequently amended.
Programme of Measures - Diffuse and Point Source Pollution - Forestry - 2015