Beavers here and there, but not everywhere - Beaver river engineering SE

This Regional Scalability Plan provides suggestions for maximizing the positive effects of beavers, and minimizing and mitigating the negative ones. Positive effects of beavers and especially beaver dams are for example enhanced biodiversity, recreational values and water quality. Negative effects are for example flooding-induced damages on infrastructure, forest stands and farmland.
Organisations that we hope can be helped by this document include County Administrative Boards of Sweden, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Swedish Water Authorities, Swedish Forest Agency, municipalities, forest companies, forest owners’ associations, hunting organisations, and Swedish Anglers Associations.
This document has been written by representatives of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Swedish Forest Agency (Skogsstyrelsen). At an early stage, feedback has been provided by the following organisations that are also part of the Swedish MERLIN reference group: County Administrative Board of Västerbotten, Sportfiskarna (NGO, Swedish Anglers Association), Sveaskog (forest enterprise), Södra (forest owner’s association). However, for the content of this document the authors are fully responsible.

Frauke Ecke (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Karin Eklöf (Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences and Daniel Thorell (Swedish Forest Agency).