Comparative Study of Member Viewpoints about Effective Socio- Economic Factors on the Range Management Cooperatives Success (Golestan Province)

Renewable natural resources are the wealth that not only belongs to the currentgeneration but also to future generations. Diversity in rangeland user viewpoints and policymakers has caused these lands to face some damages. This study was conducted to compareviewpoints of ordinary members as rangeland users, and board of directors as executives ofmanagement plans. Statistical population of the study involved ordinary members and boardof directorsof 28 range management cooperatives in Golestan province. According to theKrejsi- Morgan Table, 308 and 78 individuals were randomly selected for ordinary membersand board of directorsas sample size, respectively. Main material of this study is based onutilizing question naires that their validity and reliability were checked based on a guide study.To analyze data, qualitative methods, descriptive statistics and T-test were used. The resultsshowed that there was a significant disagreement between ordinary members and board ofdirectors about effective social-economic factors on range management cooperatives success.Based on the results, providing loans to the cooperative members with low interest and longterm payback and betters cheming for more attraction of members participation in decisionmakingand cooperatives plansare recommended.