Occasionally beavers are trapped to relocate them to other suitable habitats. But unoccupied suitable habitats for beavers are often in short supply. It is estimated that within the next 5 to 10 years, all available beaver habitat in our state will be saturated with beavers. Man will probably have to take an ever-increasing role as a predator to help control beaver populations in the future. But in any case, I'm glad they're back.
Beavers are one of the missing pieces of our natural history puzzle that has been replaced.
I just wish that all the other pieces of the puzzle could also be restored. The beavers I first discovered near my home are still thriving and have evidently produced new generations of beavers looking for new homes. About a year ago, beavers appeared in a small stream across the highway in front of my house which is down river from the original colony. This stream runs through several large cornfields from which the beavers have borrowed cornstalks for use in building their darns. They have also plugged up a culvert with mud and sticks resulting in flooding a section of the cornfield.