depredation

However, the Department of Fish and Game does issue what are known as depredation permits which allows the killing of these animals under certain conditions, usually when they pose a danger to livestock or people.

Cheri Shankar: Mountan Lion Cub Poses Imminent Danger? 2009

As the pasture in which Black Bruin had committed his depredation was a mile from the settler's house and not often visited except to salt the young stock kept in it, the real offender was not discovered, although it was apparent to the farmer that the heifer had been attacked by some wild beast.

Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

The wolves have come back in numbers better than anticipated, and ranchers have lobbied for a return of sport hunting, to keep the wolf population numbers down and minimize "depredation"-that's cow-country jargon for "killing cattle."

Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011

Even the "depredation" of private manuscript collections in the

Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40 1940

We of the civilized world are not apt to attach much credit to the latter species of exploits; but horse-stealing is well-known as an avenue to distinction on the prairies, and the other kind of depredation is esteemed equally meritorious.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Far be it from me to advocate eating Hostess cupcakes: they symbolize the industrial depredation of anything homemade, the triumph of Big Baking Brother (perhaps in his death throes: Interstate Bakeries, the company that makes them, Twinkies, and Wonder Bread, has been in bankruptcy since 2004).

Not So Guilty Pleasure 2009

Hayek may have underestimated the power of the democratic impulse to restrain the more extreme forms of government depredation, but Hayek never put any sort of time frame on his predictions.

Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I am hearing bits and pieces blaming the increasing bear population for the decrease in deer via fawn depredation but I'm not necessarily convinced.

success rate in WV in 2009 2009

I have a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly, I would like to see some serious depredation on the wolves - to get them back down to the original numbers FWS promised to maintain - not ten times more than that.

Wolfing One Down... 2009

I have a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly, I would like to see some serious depredation on the wolves - to get them back down to the original numbers FWS promised to maintain - not ten times more than that.

Wolfing One Down... 2009