Water deeply though infrequently to establish their roots, and then reduce to an occasional drink. The Water Use Classification of Landscape Species (WUCOLS IV) rates Pinyon Pine as a “low water ...

Pinyon pine typically grows either in pure stands or with juniper. The chunky little cones produce a well-known and tasty nut. The wood is very fragrant when burned. The stumpy, drought-resistant ...

Juniper and pinyon pine roots hold soils in place; their stands buffet against wind erosion that would scour precious top soils. These two tree species occur in association, displaying a strong ...

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 ...

In reality, pinyon pine and juniper forests are native to the Colorado plateau and provide critical habitat for native wildlife. He claims that only sagebrush “greeted pioneers,” when in fact ...

Junipers and pinyon pine don’t figure in famous folk songs or have their own national park like redwoods and giant sequoias. In springtime, though, the pinyon-juniper biome is full of song ...

Pinyon, which can grow 56 feet tall, produces pine nuts prized by wildlife. Both species can live to be 1,000 years old. Conifers encroaching into the sagebrush steppe are sucking up scarce water ...

U.S. Forest Service officials are alarmed at the number of pinyon pines that are dying in the City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park. Plant pathologists examined a handful of ...

CALIENTE, Nev. — When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert outside this old Union Pacific Railroad town, there’s just one thought ...

Non-commercial permits to cut pinyon pine, juniper and fir trees from federal land in Utah are now available online — at forestproducts.blm.gov — or in person at BLM offices during regular ...