The LCR MOM information assessment to support natural resources management planning in the Little Colorado River Watershed.

In 1996, a broad based group of organizations from within the Little Colorado River (LCR) Watershed decided to cooperate in developing an LCR Multi Objective Management Program (LCR MOM). The mission of the program is to develop cooperative programs that highlight projects within the Watershed, and encourage new projects for economic and environmental improvements.

An initial effort by the LCR MOM was to develop an information assessment for the Watershed. The information assessment for the Little Colorado River Watershed included development of an assessment of literature and data in eight issue areas as follows:

• Cultural Economic Development
• Recreation
• Erosion / Sediment Management
• Water Quality / Quantity
• Wildlife Habitat
• Education

The electronic information provided includes literature and data on the above eight issue areas. Literature and data are provided in separate files.

The assessment of science and management literature is focused in two areas:

1. Published literature from National and Regional electronic databases and libraries.
2. Non-published literature from Federal and State Agencies, Native American Tribal Governments, Natural resource organization, etc.

Examples of literature databases searched includes the Biological and Agricultural index, Congressional Libraries (Lexis-Nexus), GEO Ref, Life Sciences, Bibliography of Native North Americans, etc. Information is restricted to science and literature that focuses specifically on the LCR Watershed. As such, Native American literature is dominated by studies on lands of the Navajo, Hope and Zuni Nations.

Although the study focus was to document only literature existence and location, the project Did result in development of a small physical library. Many of the library holding are unique and valuable, in that they are agency reports that have not been published, or have extremely limited circulation.

The current literature reference exceeds 2500 listings. Of these, over 1400 physical documents are housed in a LCR MOM Library located in the Department of Public Works, Navajo County Offices, Holbrook, Az. You are invited to visit the library for any special reference needs.

The assessment of literature in which data is included focused on Native American, federal and state agency resource offices in the Southwest, and specifically those within the LCR Watershed.

Existing data files included in the LCR MOM date assessment include:

1. Digital data, tables on dbf format in Microsoft Excel or Access.
2. Gis coverage's in ARC View format.
3. Electronic documents and bibliographies.
4. World Wide Web and meta data pointers on the LCR Watershed.

We hope the LCR MOM literature and data files will be useful to you in your project or area of interest. We encourage you to also visit LCR MOM's Web Page with the Little Colorado River RC&D, assessed as follow: www.littlecolorado.org