Mar. 20—For 18 months, Paul Reimus has led the battle in his neighborhood against a resurgent bark beetle invading piñon trees. He and others have enjoyed a winter respite from the beetles, but that ...

Piñon pine (Pinus edulis) is New Mexico’s state tree. Slow-growing and long-lived, it supports our native ecosystem. Piñons provide cover for many birds year-round, and the piñon jay and the piñon ...

Varlin Higbee walks through a dense pinyon-juniper woodland in Lincoln County, Nev. The county commissioner would like to see the trees harvested and used for the production of biofuel. (Louis Sahagun ...

ALBUQUERQUE – Collecting piñon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the Southwest for generations. But environmentalists are concerned that without the pinyon jay – a ...

WEBVTT BARK BEETLES ARE BACK IN NEW MEXICO, AND IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR PINON PINE TREES - YOU NEED TO ACT NOW. FIRST ALERT METEOROLOGIST ERIC GREEN HAS THE TIPS, TO HELP YOU SAVE YOUR TREES. THE ...

ALBUQUERQUE – Good news for pine nut lovers. Not so good for allergy sufferers. A five-year inventory of New Mexico’s forested lands shows positive growth rates among the state’s most important piñon ...

A new study sheds new light on what is happening in pinyon-juniper woodlands across the West. The research is unique, in that it looks at both tree mortality, as well as recruitment, or new seedlings ...

Tall, bushy, spiny and fragrant, the pinyon pine is a beloved feature of the Mountain West — and not just for its beauty. The tiny piñon nuts in the tree’s cones are so good, people in the region have ...

To the editor: Those who choose to ignore history will one day have to relive it. The proposal for Nevada and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to tear out juniper and pinyon pine forests to make ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Collecting pinon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the southwestern U.S. for generations. But environmentalists are concerned that without the ...