Trementina (piñon wood sap), was used to make a very important antibiotic an unguento (ointment) named encerada. It is made with trementina, osha and some beeswax as main ingredients.

Infested trees show telltale signs, such as browning needles and beetle bore holes. It’s best to cut them down while the beetles are still in them, and dispose of the wood by burning it in a pile, ...

At a crucial point in “The Volunteer,” the second novel from Salvatore Scibona, the title character walks into an adobe hut in New Mexico. “Piñon wood burned in the cookstove. A new smell ...