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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 ...

Climate change, meaning increased heat and dryness, was a lead threat to the pinyon jay throughout its New Mexico range, read the petition, impact the piñon pine trees the bird feeds on and the ...

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 ...

Sep. 19—Tlahuicole Morales Cortes was far up a piñon tree as a pack of people stooped over below him on the slopes of the rocky landscape northeast of Santa Fe, their heads lowered and eyes ...

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 ...

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 ...