Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Beavers-Are they bad?

I have a 1/2 acre pond with a fairly large Dam on the back side. I have noticed several trees have fallen into the water. Most are at lease 6" thick. I'm certain these otherwise healthy trees were cut down by a beaver. I'm not too concerned because I was planning to cut them down myself. I don't understand why they would have any interest in these trees, they are at leaset 500 feet from the overflow. Will this beaver cause any more issues that I should be concerned with in regards to the integrity of my pond or the fish?

Beavers cannot haul heavy tree loads over land. However, I have encountered a beaver swimming across a 500-acre lake while towing a full 25' tall tree.

Beavers will eat the tasty trees. Beavers will use the handy trees right at the edge of the water for their construction projects.

As soon as your pond level goes up enough to send some water through your overflow pipe, I predict the beaver(s) will quickly block that water flow.

They are amazingly dedicated creatures to what THEY consider to be a priority!

A few years back we had beavers establish one pond on our property and one downstream a couple hundred yards. In the process they cut down some good size trees and almost every birch, dozens of trees, and they dropped a few in the road that ran between the two sites. They appeared to drop a tree, cut it into manageable sections, and drag them off to their target dam site, and they could drag those sections pretty far.