Does logging silt streams?
A. Logging companies follow very careful regulations that prohibit logging across streams, and use logging and road-building techniques which further reduce erosion. Special measures are also taken to leave a buffer of trees along stream banks to guard against erosion. Chances are the water you drink today comes from a forest. Communities near forest areas depend on the streams for water, and don’t have a problem with water quality. In fact, some of the purest water in the country comes from areas which are logged on a regular basis. Logging is a watershed practice to even out the flow of water that would otherwise be evaporated by the trees.
