Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

For the past 17 years, the first weekend in October has been reserved for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo—but not this year.

Well, like many, many other events around the country, we have been a victim of the economy. It’s just been very difficult to raise the money that it takes to put the Expo on.

Ernie Gammage, Director of Urban Outdoor Programs says because of the economy, Expo is on hiatus for two years. The event cost a half million dollars to produce and most of that came from sponsor underwriting.

With every challenge comes and opportunity. And our opportunity now is to find places to take an Expo-like event—and we’re calling this the Life’s Better Outside Experience. And we’ll actually be taking these regional events on the road starting next year, and we’ll be holding them in San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi and Longview.

The Life’s Better Outside Experience will become part of existing events around the state, such as festivals and rodeos, and will be like regional mini-Expos.

They’ll be very much like a mini-Expo. There’ll be rock climbing, and archery, and fishing activities…and information about state parks, and a chance for people really to find out what’s in their own backyard.

We’ll have more on the Life Better Outside Experience tomorrow.

That’s our show… remember…Life’s better outside…for Texas parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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