Neighboring Landowner Protections Sample Clauses

Neighboring Landowner Protections. The parties to this Agreement recognize that some landowners who might otherwise wish to participate in the Agreement may nonetheless have significant concerns about the potential regulatory effects of such participation on their neighbors. Similarly, landowners who elect not to become active program participants, but who own property near or adjacent to landowners may have the same concerns. These concerns center primarily on the possibility that Chiricahua leopard frogs inhabiting a Participating Landowner’s property could, through natural migration or dispersal, move onto aquatic sites, including stock tanks, on a neighboring property. In the absence of suitable regulatory protections, such neighboring landowners could then face certain legal liabilities under section 9 of the Act. Under such circumstances, non-participating landowners who neighbor Participating Landowners might even elect to move, alter, or destroy aquatic sites on their lands that are not occupied by leopard frogs in an effort to avoid future occupation by frogs—in effect, removing potential Chiricahua leopard frog habitat. By removing these disincentives, this section of the Agreement is expected to increase the benefits of the overall conservation program in two ways: 1) by potentially increasing enrollment in the Agreement by Participating Landowners (and thereby the number of actual leopard frog habitat sites); and 2) by helping increase the amount of potential habitat available on neighboring lands. Either way, Chiricahua leopard frogs will benefit as a result of regulatory protections for neighboring landowners.