What is the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable and who participates?
The SRR is a stakeholder process for identifying criteria and indicators of rangeland sustainability. It is not, itself, a decision making body, but rather provides an opportunity for groups and individuals representing diverse interests and backgrounds to share information and perspectives on defining and describing C&I of rangeland sustainability. Currently we have representatives from numerous governmental agencies, professors of range ecology, sociology, animal science and economics, and members or industry groups, environmental organizations, and professional societies. The inclusive nature of the process will lead to wider acceptance and adoption of SRR products by agencies, non-profits, and academia, and the general public. The SRR has a growing list of over a hundred representatives from Federal, state, and local agencies, 16 universities, non-governmental groups & organizations. The SRR has 4-5 meetings per year. Participants are organized in criterion groups, each focused on
