There platforms are used for sleeping, eating, and resting. The artificial water bodies created by the Beavers flood over trees, which causes them to die. This causes concern to many naturalists. In a few years the Beavers will have exhausted the supply of poplars and aspen in the vicinity of the pond, and so they will abandon an area but leave behind the dead trees that were not in their diet. The concern at airports that have Beavers is that their actions cause flooding, and water attracts many species of wildlife such as ducks, shorebirds, raptors, and other birds that can cause bird strikes.
Beavers also burrow into banks which causes an erosion problem on ditch banks.