Note that this does not really reduces the validity of the comment you react to. Beavers could probably say pretty much the same thing. "Did you try living next

Note that this does not really reduces the validity of the comment you react to. Beavers could probably say pretty much the same thing. "Did you try living next to humans? I do not recommend it. Not only do they break the dams we took so long to build, but they love to put stupid wire around the best trees. And some of them even have rifles and will shoot without warning. At least I could bite one in the groin!" I know how annoying it can be to have wild animals destroy your property (there are for instance beavers, racoons, wild boars and woodpeckers where I live, and I own a wooden house), but in principle we do not have more right to shaping our habitat the way we like than beavers and wildlife in general. More than "managing beavers", what we need is to find ways to co-exist peacefully. One part might be "managing" them, but another part is definitely to accept that their needs in part conflict with ours, and that we need to give them some space and accept some of the damage as a price to pay to share land with them.