A new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows that New Mexico’s beloved piñon pine trees may be more flexible in how ...

Cycles of nut production — whether a crop will prove bountiful or sparse — are tied to rainfall. In 1949, the New Mexico Legislature officially adopted the piñon pine as the state tree.

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“They are the primary disperser and planter of pinon pine seeds. So without pinyon jays, we don’t have piñon pines,” said Pegg Darr, a New Mexico representative of Defenders of Wildlife.

ESPANOLA — New Mexico’s iconic piñon trees (P. edulis), sometimes called the Two Needle Piñon, is engrained into the culture and lives of the people of our state. It has been important to ...

SANTA FE – Tree deaths in New Mexico’s forests more than doubled from 2023, according to the new Forest Health Conditions Report released by the Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Forestry ...

These Pinyon Jay extinction projects are continuing seamlessly between administrations. New Trump 2.0 projects include Ely BLM’s Illipah Watershed White Pine Range project.