Challanges to Beaver Relocation & Restoration:

• Beaver Habitat Suitability Index Model - by Arthur W. Allen et al: Provided by the Habitat Suitability Index Series from the US Department of the Interior. Provides habitat information useful for impact assessment and habitat management. (Fish and Wildlife Service, April 1983)
• Beaver in Heavily Browsed Environments - by Bruce W. Baker: Beaver populations have been declining or have failed to recover in heavily browsed environments. The author proposes that intense browsing by livestock or ungulates can disrupt beaver-willow mutualism that likely evolved under relatively low herbivory in a more predator-rich environment, and that this interaction may explain beaver and willow declines.
• Beavers in Massachusetts - Natural History, Benefits, and Ways to Resolve Conflict Between People and Beavers - by  Scott Jackson and Thomas Decker
• Survival, fates and success of Transplanted Beavers in Wyoming - by Mark McKinstry: Author established beaver in 13/14 of the release sites and they eventually reproduced. Results show that relocation can be successful, but losses from mortality and emmigration need to be considered. (Canadian Field Naturalist, 2002)
• Using Snares to Live-Capture Beavers  - by Mark McKinstry
• Temporal and spatial dynamics of beaver-created patches as influenced by management practices in a south-eastern North American landscape - by Joel Snodgrass: Author uses historical aerial photography to determine the extent and rate of impoundment of streams by beavers during a 40 year period.  Management practices changed over these years, from complete protection to allowed fatal trapping. Results indicate, however, that growth rate, beaver-created "patch" size, and composition of habitat within patchers were not related to management activity. (Journal of Applied Ecology, 1997)
• Habitat classification models for beaver in the streams of the centeral Oregon costal range - by Nobuya Suzuki: After measuring two stream habitat attributes, the authors find that beaver built dams in areas with wide valley-floors; narrow, low gradient streams; high grass/sedge cover; and low red alder (Alnus rubra) and shrub cover. (Northwest Science, 1998)
• Beaver Reintroduction Methods and Requirements  - by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: A thorough guide outlining techniques for relocating beaver, along with other important information and aging and sexing beaver, risks to property, associated costs, and more. (WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife, 2004)
• Beaver Management Plan - by City of Westminster
• Attitudes of private- and public- land managers in Wyoming, USA, toward beaver - by Mark McKinstry and Stanley Anderson: An account of the perceptions land owners in Wyoming have on the benefits and disadvantages of beaver (Environmental Management 1999).
• An analysis of the efficacy and comparative costs of using flow devices to resolve conflicts with North American beavers along roadways in the Coastal Plain of Virginia - by Stephanie Boyles and Barbara Savitzky: Results show that following flow device installations, the transportation department saved $8.37 for every $1.00 spent to install, monitor, and maintain the flow devices (UC Davis 2008).
• Restoring riverine landscapes: the challenge of identifying priorities, reference states, and techniques - by C. Nilsson et al: Many different factors combine to affect management decisions relating to river restoration, thus challenging the development of restoration ecology (Ecology and Society 2007).
• Guidance for Beaver Dam Problems - by Bay Circuit Alliance :This article discusses the many ways flooding near a trail or bridge may be abated including relocation or rebuilding of infrastructure, pond leveling devices,  trapping out beaver and more (2006).