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Our Fall 2014 symposium Northeast Texas: Diversity of Ecosystems will be held October 16-19 at the Texarkana Convention Center. Located literally on the border of two states, “Twice as Nice” Texarkana is actually two cities—Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Ark. Less than an hour to the northwest is Oklahoma and about a half-hour to the south is Louisiana. It’s truly a four-state region. Not only do those four geopolitical state lines converge in or near Texarkana, but several ecological lines converge there, too. Two of Texas’ ten vegetational zones—Piney Woods and Post Oak Savannah—bisect Texarkana’s Bowie County diagonally, and ecosystems converging all around include pine and hardwood forests, grasslands, deserts, swamps and even subtropics.
Headquarters will be the Texarkana Convention Center. Located at 4610 Cowhorn Creek Road—on the Texas side of Texarkana, just off Interstate 30—the spacious environmentally friendly convention center boasts the prestigious LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. Texarkana is located on Interstate 30, about 175 miles east of Dallas (just more than 2½ hours) on the border with Arkansas. The convention center and host hotel are located 13 minutes from Texarkana Regional Airport, which is served by American Eagle Airlines, and 9 minutes from Amtrak’s Texas Eagle station, on the Arkansas side of Texarkana.
Northeast Texas: Diversity of Ecosystems is open to anyone interested in the role that native habitats play in our daily lives and offers a tremendous opportunity to learn how to restore and preserve our state’s rich and diverse native plant communities.
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**ARCHIVED POST AUTHOR: Bill Hopkins
