Beaver activity has an insignificant impact on commercial forestry and agricultural practice. Conifers are not normally eaten and beaver grazing on specific specimen trees can be easily prevented by simple wire mesh fencing. Undesirable, localised beaver activity can be simply resolved by a range of proven continental or North American methodologies such as dam drainage or exclusion fencing. Dams are not be protected by law and can therefore be removed by landowners in case of conflict.  Where this is not practicable beavers can be easily trapped on their regular runways and translocated or culled.

Flooding of farmland is a relatively easy issue to resolve by the drainage of dams, their removal, the translocation of beavers or their humane culling when this is no longer possible.
In lower Bavaria the annual cost of beaver activity to the public purse has been calculated to equate to significantly less than the average daily cost of damage caused by other game species.

Swedish experience demonstrates that the impact of beaver grazing on commercial woodland is considerably less significant than deer whilst in Norway (Beaver population about 50,000) foresters have determined that the level of damage caused by beavers is insufficient to warrant insurance.