When Habitats Overlap

Hastings county is a wetlands rich area, where many beavers live. Beaver culling is primarily a rural aggregate. Bringing beavers to areas of need, is unfortunately prohibited. Human productivity brings conflict on many fronts. Despite this, beavers are not endangered.
While Canadians personify beavers, there is also a dark history. Beavers have been and do remain a viable industry.

With 2 to 4 kits leaving the lodge annually, young beavers encounter many inhumane situations. 60% die within 12 months. If this were not so, beaver populations would more than double annually. Habitats are primarily for water eco systems benefits. Traps while problematic, have a higher quick/humane outcome compared to that of predators and other encounters. 

Coexistence is an objective, but oversights must be avoided. Municipalities are not villains, and as beavers will persist, there is plenty of time for due diligence. Where a number of private residences are to be immersed in cohabitation, a municipality must be thorough. Where multiple dwellings are involved multiple site visits also follow.

Beavers are hailed as nature's engineers. They build and single mindedly endeavor to propagate and cascade water as far as possible. Habitats in isolation have many positive attributes, but amid the infrastructure of humans, they can easily create catastrophic results. In municipalities these are expensive, as they require intensive oversight.

Making sure a habitat will not be harmful is for the Geotech engineer. Any purveyor of coexistence is acting irresponsibly and inhumanely, unless they insist and assist on the approval of a Geotech engineer. For a habitat, where water literally laps adjacent to home properties, observation wells can effectively determine if the water table has been raised to compromise OBC.

Without Due diligence, the risk to homes is unknown, and how uninformed proponents of the coexistence movement can unintentionally do harm.