Qualifications for the 454 series were last updated during the 1970's and the SRM curriculum standards for accreditation of range programs were developed at the same time. The SRM Accreditation Handbook was revised in 2005, but there were only minor modifications to the curriculum standard. This presentation will present and discuss the curriculum standard in the accreditation handbook and evaluate how university programs have changed in the past 40 years. Workshop participants will be encouraged to evaluate the current curriculum standard relative to the current needs of agencies hiring under the 454 series. The objective is to evaluate whether changes should be proposed for the Accreditation Handbook.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.