pinyon
Americannoun
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She stations herself on a stretch of trail that’s lightly shaded by pinyon pines.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024
“Without pinyon jays, we stand to lose iconic Southwestern landscapes, cultures and cuisines intimately tied to piñon pine nuts.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Firefighters fled the 750-foot-high fire front — as tall as a 53-floor building — as it chewed through pine, pinyon and juniper dried by a record-hot spring.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2022
At Brush Creek near Snowmass, we spotted the Clark’s nutcracker along with three kinds of jays — the Steller’s, Woodhouse’s scrub-jay and the pinyon — and large flocks of chatty, yellow-streaked pine siskins.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022
Captive mice were especially fond of pinyon nuts, and these probably provide a substantial part of the diet of Peromyscus in the autumn and early winter.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.
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