The tree is a conifer and the lineal taxonomy is Pinopsida > Pinales > Pinaceae > Pinus edulis. Mill. Pinyon pine is also commonly called Colorado pinyon, nut pine, pinon pine, pinyon, Pinyon pine ...

Pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) is a native tree to the Southwestern U.S. that produces pine nuts, or pinyons, after only two ...

A pinyon jay sits in a juniper tree. The bird is a keystone species ... with hundreds alighting on piñon pines to glean nuts in the winter months. Now it’s uncommon to see flocks of more ...

Caching is critical for the jays’ survival, but also for the trees. Pinyon jays and piñon pines are wholly interdependent — the piñon nuts provide essential sustenance for the bird ...

In 1949, the New Mexico Legislature officially adopted the piñon pine as the state tree. Tracy Neal, a retired horticulturist, hopes a strong year for piñon nut production will help pinyon jays ...

The research is unique, in that it looks at both tree mortality ... In addition, Shriver said pinyons and pine nut harvesting are culturally important, to Native Americans and others, and ...

Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously sprinkled onto the ground. Next to her lay a blue tarp to catch ...

When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert ... least of which was sustenance from pine nuts — ranchers and federal land managers ...

Caching is critical for the jays’ survival, but also for the trees. Pinyon jays and piñon pines are wholly interdependent—the piñon nuts provide essential sustenance for the bird ...

ESPANOLA — New Mexico’s iconic piñon trees (P. edulis), sometimes called ... Food was always a priority and the gathering of these delectable nuts was valued as they could be preserved ...

You can find those piñon nuts anywhere there’s piñon pine trees. That’s almost any forest in New Mexico, and if you’re lucky you’ll also find the pinyon jay. “They are the primary ...