The challenge for the immediate future is to assure that the resources of the forests can be used for the humans’ demands while minimizing the damages caused by the forest operations. Such ambitious undertaking, however, requires in-depth knowledge about the status of the human interference on the European forests. Despite the ongoing intensive exploitation of the European forest resources and documented impacts on the European soils and related functions, today researchers still lack a well-grounded knowledge about the impacts that the forest management activities have on the soil functions within European forests .Among others,the primary limitation is the lack of freely accessible cartography of the European forests that are object to wood supply. Not only does this conflict with the framework of the Forest Europe objectives but it is also in strong contrast with the European Commission’s thematic strategy of Soil Protection and the EU Water Framework Directive. Hansen et al.’s (2013) recent study is a first step to fill the gap of knowledge in order to comprehensively monitor and analyze soil erosion processes in the European forests.