Following the beaver reintroduction in Bavaria (1966 – 1970’s) it was found that 98% of all problems are within 20m from the water and beaver problems only occur if human land use is too close to the water. A long term solution to this problem is to move human land use away from rivers, not just to reduce beaver conflict but also to protect the rivers, allow river development, increase habitat for other species and for flooding protection.  

Beaver burrows in fish farms rather than flood banks, are an occasional issue where dissuasive road lights and sunken or electric fencing have been used as deterrents. Where these techniques fail translocation or culling may be required.

Beavers will feed on crops; however any damage is usually minor.  Burrows excavated under fields can fall in and cause a problem, as can damming which floods man used areas or can block water courses.

In the short term there are many simple solutions such as electric fencing around crops and trees, damage compensation, removal of dams, trapping beavers and relocating them to other areas. 

In reintroduction in Bavaria, problems with beavers are restricted to a small portion of the landscape with high-level human use and most problems are small problems with easy solutions.