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People used to actively demolish beaver dams right? What was considered the downside back then?

• _teyd 3y ago
  They still do, they can cause flooding and rerouting streams into/through built up areas.
• grecy 3y ago
  They still do. Flooding so much land is a nuisance for farming and for road access.
• jacquesm 3y ago
  Land that they were already using turning into lakes. Beavers can make lakes that are absolutely enormous because they aim their dams so carefully, and can construct them to very impressive heights. I've had a 20 meter wide two meter high beaver dam on my Canadian property. It seemed incredible that such tiny animals can make such enormous constructs.
  • lostlogin 3y ago
    > It seemed incredible that such tiny animals can make such enormous constructs. Humans have done a lot by this measure. Some of it is less than desirable though.
• Loughla 3y ago
  Flooding. We had beavers at the south edge of our property for years. They would dam the large creek there, and flood an 80 acre field pretty effectively. We managed to convince the little bastards to move down the creek to a section where the flooding would hit some woods and CRP ground that we could never really farm due to terrain. But that took like 10 years. Shooting them and destroying the dam would've taken a day. So that's the motivation.