As of: March 9, 2024, 5:03 a.m
By: Alexandra Korimorth
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A small lake on the Moosbach: The water accumulates into a pond through the beaver dam.
Some residents fear species extinction.
However, the responsible offices see no need for action.
© Alexandra Korimorth
A beaver has been causing mischief at the Moosbach for a long time.
The people of Gmund are calling for the community to intervene.
But the responsible authorities see no need for this.
Moosrain
- A topic that concerned the people of Gmund at their citizens' meeting and caused them to shake their heads incomprehension was the beaver from the Moosbach in Moosrain.
It has been extremely busy since last year, when its structure behind the dam lock was removed because there was a risk of it becoming blocked during the next flood (we reported).
Beaver dam accumulates water into a pond - trees die or are felled
He built his new beaver dam in front of (or west of) the man-made flood control dam.
Last year, this resulted in a fairly large pond, almost a small lake, forming behind the wall at the level of the training apiary.
In the summer, the muddy broth was also a challenge in terms of smell.
Likewise, walking in huge swarms of mosquitoes.
Four or five old trees have already died and been removed.
Rushes now grow there.
Even ducks make their rounds between the trees that were planted on the compensation area.
The trees that don't die because their roots are constantly in water are also felled by beavers.
The culprit doesn't shy away from the thickest specimens.
Citizens collect signatures
But that is not all.
“Because the water is dammed in the pond, the stream bed runs dry,” says Friedrich Joachim from Moosrain.
“All water-dependent animals die,” he complained not only in an application to the citizens’ meeting, which he submitted together with 49 signatures collected in Moosrain, but also at the event itself. There Mayor Alfons Besel explained to him that the community – although officially not responsible for the beaver and the damage caused by it - received statements from the responsible higher-level authorities on the basis of the initiative.
They approved of the landscape changes caused by the beaver.
The water management office in Rosenheim even welcomes the beaver's activities.
And the beaver advisor from the district office said that the resulting wetland biotope was considered to be more valuable than the previous compensation area.
Many animals in the Moosbach are threatened with extinction - not just beavers
Friedrich Joachim wasn't the only one who reacted with disappointment and incomprehension.
He tried to keep the stream alive for two months last summer.
There have still been trout in the Moosbach.
They are now on the red list and are threatened with extinction - not just the beaver, argued Joachim.
If no action was taken, the water would seep away and the Moosbach would soon look like the Weissach on the lower course - “a stone stream without life”.
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He continued his anger to applause: “We are upset about the extinction of species on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, but we are experiencing it on our own doorstep.
And instead of standing up to the madness, the authorities are slowing us down.”
For his part, Mayor Besel had not yet committed to saving the Moosbach due to its existing biodiversity.
It is currently being examined whether a small dam could be built to protect the meadows to protect the valuable agricultural area.