The United States Forest Service and the United States Bureau of Land Management manage a majority of the lands in Nevada. However, they understand the need to use those lands for the public good and the overall benefit of Nevadans. In the years leading up to NEAP, these organizations experienced trouble finding reliable and consistent data throughout all of Nevada, especially the rural communities. To properly access economic impacts with land usage, the organizations needed this data and approached Buddy Borden and Tom Harris to rectify the situation. Henceforth, NEAP was born out of this collaboration. Shortly after that, the Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) was approached to join as well. NACO is a longtime supporter and partner of Extension. NACO agreed and saw the need and benefit to the communities across Nevada from its partnership with NEAP. Further into the program, the USDA Rural Development approached the NEAP and also asked to be a part of it seeing the great strides taken in providing consistent datasets throughout Nevada.

Over the last 36 months, NEAP has been implemented in 15 Nevada counties that have generated the following deliverables:

• 15 baseline reports
• 4 technical reports
• 85 infographic fact sheets
• 13 asset mapping community surveys
• 15 cultural overviews

 NEAP outputs have been used for land use planning, policy assessment, economic impact analyses and federal grant applications (NIFA, NEPA, etc.). Along these lines, NEAP has contributed to other existing programs like CEDS. The data repository is designed to be updated and re-implemented into community projections, so that community planning is made easier.
Each county has its own landing page for citizens and county leaders to access NEAP deliverables or to check in on any updates, such as new reports, fact sheets, and surveys. Currently, 15 of the 17 counties are active with full NEAP reports and fact sheets.