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pinyon

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[pin-yuhn, peen-yohn, peen-yohn] / ˈpɪn jən, ˈpin joʊn, pinˈjoʊn /

noun

  1. piñon.


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The lawsuit claims the plan would eradicate habitat for imperiled sage grouse and pinyon jays with techniques including “chaining” — the dragging of an anchor chain from a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Researchers have said that understanding the bird’s needs and effects on its habitats will be fundamental to managing Western environments to ensure pinyon jay colonies can be protected.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

As a teenager, he’d drive from his family’s cattle ranch, down a sagebrush steppe dotted with juniper and pinyon and into town for a night of dancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

Quaintance found near the rimrock a quarter of a mile from the prairie-dog town the skeletons of two prairie dogs between a sliver of a dead pinyon branch and the branch itself.

From Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Sydney Anderson

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