9392

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9392
• Author: Brookshire, D. S., M. McKee and S. Stewart.
• Title: A Four Corners Regional Focus on the Economic Impact of Critical Habitat Designation for the Razorback Sucker, Humpback Chub, Colorado Squawfish, and Bonytail.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Albuquerque.
• Copyright Material: NO

B. Region of Analysis
The San Juan River flows through four counties: Montezuma County in Colorado, Rio Arriba
and San Juan counties in New Mexico, and San Juan county in Utah. Although the San Juan
does not flow through Apache, Coconino, and Navajo counties in Arizona and McKinley
county in New Mexico, these counties contain significant portions of the Navajo reservation,
so they are included in the analysis. Similarly, Archuleta and La Plata counties in Colorado
are home to the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute Reservations and are included to allow
identification of the impacts to the tribal economies.
The ten county region constitutes swell-defined regional economy. The economy of the
region relies heavily on agriculture, extractive industries, government services, and tourism.
There is increasing reliance on service-oriented sectors in the growing cities of Cortez,
Durango, Farmington, Gallup, and Flagstaff. The counties are relatively homogeneous with
respect to their physical, social, and economic characteristics. The presence of the four
Native American reservations lends an administrative coherence to the area'
C. 'Itime Period
The time period selected for the study extends from 1995 through 2040. This time period is
based on several factors: the biological projections for the recovery of the fishes, the
availability of reliable data to project the level of economic development in the region and
model the economic impacts, and the recognition of the diminution of impacts occurring
distant into the future due to discounting. The initial impacts of listing and critical habitat
are projected to appear in 1999, and the recovery of the fishes is expected to be complete by
2020. Thus, a time frame of 1995-2040 should capture all of the impacts of the fishes'
'Although the regional economy has linkages with the larger state and national economies, the purpose of
this study is to focus specifically on the regional and tribal effects of critical habitat designation. Thus, only regional
economic effects will be reported. State and national economic projections aze reported in Brookshire et al., 1994.
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