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n <br />Polarization. The economies of the tribal lands are linked to the economies of the surrounding <br />' communities such as Farmington and Gallup in New Mexico, and Page in Arizona. This linkage <br />occurs through employment of reservation residents in surrounding towns (and vice versa), and <br />' through commercial transactions between the reservations and the surrounding towns. <br />Employment interaction is evident in the employment mobility data for the Navajo Nation shown <br />' in Table 2-A-2.3 In the wholesale and retail trade sector, 4,017 workers leave the reservation to <br />work. In the health, education, and government services sector, 4,610 individuals come from off <br />' of the reservation to work on the reservation. That is, the true economic region extends beyond <br />the reservation boundaries. <br />1 <br />Policy-oriented coherence. Constructing a model of the entire regional economy allows <br />' comparison of alternative scenarios concerning which entities in the region are permitted to <br />develop water. Confining the economic analysis to the tribal lands alone would likely understate <br />' the total economic impacts arising from the designation of critical habitat because doing so <br />would ignore the direct impacts occurring off tribal lands that will affect tribal economies <br />through economic feedbacks and interactions. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />' The Navajo Nation was the only tribal entity that provided data for employment provided on the reservation. <br /> <br />8 <br />