A beetle no bigger than a grain of rice is threatening to do a Paul-Bunyan-size job on area pinon pines. Aided by drought, the pinon bark beetle is killing off an increasing number of pinon trees in ...
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 the ...
When I bought land west of Santa Fe in the late 1980s, it felt like home to me even before I physically moved there in 1992. What made it home were the piñon pines, that forest of short, squat trees.