Several years ago, Dr. Dave Stahle (University of Arkansas, Geosciences) convened the X Timbers Consortium to preserve and protect the remaining ancnet forest ecotone of Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Dave tells us, The Cross Timbers and Post Oak Savanna form the frontier between the eastern deciduous forest and the grasslands of the southern Great Plains. This great ecotone preserves some of the largest tracts of relatively undisturbed ancient forest and woodland left in the eastern United States, and offers an exceptional opportunity for environmental research, education, and conservation…The Consortium has organized a unique network of cooperative research natural areas in ancient Cross Timbers remnants extending across 700 miles from southeastern Kansas to southern Texas. Find out more at: http://www.uark.edu/misc/xtimber/