Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously sprinkled onto the ground. Next to her lay a blue tarp to catch falling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While there is still time to enjoy the last days of summer, soon days will become shorter and a new season will be upon us. Fall’s cooler temperatures make the perfect time to explore Western Colorado ...

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 ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. A nasal, laughing bird call echoed through the Ortiz Mountains in northern New Mexico this September. A couple of pinyon jays chattered loudly as they ...

The long drive between Salt Lake City and Reno on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are changing dramatically. Wildfire, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The long drive between Salt Lake City and Reno on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert ...