Nevada Comprehensive Preservation Plan 2012

Introduction: "For the past year, the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has been in the process of preparing a new comprehensive preservation plan to guide historic preservation for the next eight years. The 2003 plan was ambitious and it succeeded for the most part because the state was rapidly increasing in population and industry making possible the growth of programs that benefited historic preservation. The end of the eight-year planning cycle unfortunately ended with the recession which dealt a severe blow to the economy of Nevada. As a consequence many historic preservation programs in the state experienced a loss of funding and staff. Historic preservation programs are competing with education and critical human services for shrinking state and federal dollars and a number of programs have been affected. The State of Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs no longer exist as of September 30, 2011 and the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office returned to its original home at the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, with some of its public outreach programs suspended. At a time of great scrutiny over the expenditure of public dollars, the historic preservation community must demonstrate that preservation is relevant to peoples’ daily lives, and that it is just as important, if not more so, for historic preservation programs to continue into the future." Funding was provided in part by a 2012 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (project number NV-12-15, grant number 32-12-41935) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Nevada Comprehensive Preservation Plan 2012

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