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 ...

Scientists still have new leaves to turn over when it comes to understanding tree mechanics, as demonstrated by a recent study from Los Alamos National Laboratory, which found some plants may react ...

The smell is always the first indication. The Colorado pinyon pine – technically, Pinus edulis, aka two-needle pine, two-needle piñon or simply piñon – smells much, much sweeter and sappier than other ...

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 trained ...

Karen Fischer is an independent writer, editor, and reporter who specializes in food writing that highlights desert communities, aquaculture, and culinary traditions of the American Southwest and Gulf ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding Pinyon Jays to the endangered species list. The agency started a 12-month evaluation of the species earlier this month ...