Ms Mary Gurrie:

I will respond to that question. I am just checking my notes. Forestry is now the second most significant pressure on water quality. Some 223 water bodies are impacted by forestry. A legacy issue exists in that forestry was historically planted on the wrong sites, for example, on upland sites that were considered bad land and maybe fit for nothing else. These are sensitive locations, however, as they tend to be where our highest quality water bodies are also located. They get impacted by sediment run-off, nutrients, pesticides, changes in the flow and hydromorphology, as we call it, from drainage associated with forestry, which tends to impact on these more sensitive waters. That legacy issue needs to managed. The particular activities also tend to have an impact. When a forest is stable it tends to be lower risk but when activities such as felling and road building take place, that is when they need the most management. Proper management and oversight are needed at that stage to make sure issues do not arise.