A meeting was held on May 14, 2002 at the Sweetwater Country Club in Sweetwater, Texas.  The Council Key Leadership of the Buffalo Trail Council, Midland, TX; Concho Valley Council, San Angelo, TX; Chisholm Trail Council, Abilene, TX, met to explore the possibility of joining together to form one council.  Comanche Trail Council, Brownwood, TX, was not invited to attend this meeting.  Following this meeting, the Executive Board of the Buffalo Trail Council turned down the offer to consolidate into one council.

A second meeting was held June 19, 2002 at the First Coleman National Bank, Coleman, TX and Comanche Trail Council was invited this time to participate in the meeting along with Concho Valley Council and Chisholm Trail Council.  Following this meeting the Concho Valley Council's Executive Board voted, by only one vote, not to participate further into discussions about consolidating the three councils into one.

A third meeting was then held on August 6, 2003 at Hendrick Hospital, Abilene, TX with ten selected Scouters from Chisholm Trail Council and Comanche Trail Council to form a "Program Review Study Task Force" to look into the pros and cons of the two councils consolidating into one council with a new name.  The three task study groups reported back on Finance, Program and Administration.  That group voted to proceed with further studies and to have Town Hall Scouter meetings in several different communities in the two councils with representatives of both councils present to answer questions and give the pros and cons about consolidation.

As reported in the Brownwood Bulletin, August 29, 2003, from the meeting held at the Council Service Center in Brownwood, "Some scout leaders expressed concern that being included in a huge council would cause area Scout leaders to lose a voice in council decisions.  The prospect of aligning with a big city council ( Ft. Worth) also brought concerns to the forefront that Comanche Trail Council and Chisholm Trail would lose their distinct West Texas culture."

Following the Town Hall meetings held in seven communities of the two councils, their respective Executive Boards and charter organizations voted on October 29, 2002 to combine the two councils into one council.  A transition team of 20 members from both councils met on October 30, 2002 in Brownwood to discuss the upcoming changes.  As Pat Leatherwood, stated at that meeting, "The decision was am emotional one."  The new council would be based in Abilene.

Following a contest to name the new council, held until November 15 2002, the name "Texas Trails" was selected.  Another contest was held to select the shoulder patch for the new council and that selection was done in 2003. This new patch had two ghost symbols in the background.  One of a buffalo head and one of the longhorn head.  Some features of the former shoulder patches of the Chisholm Trail Council and the Comanche Trail Council patch was incorporated into the design.  The first patches of 1,000 were made by Sunshine Emblems in Florida.  The new council budget was to be about $750,000.