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The Colorado pinyon (piñon) grows as the dominant species on 4.8 million acres (19,000 km 2 or 7,300 sq mi) in Colorado, making up 22% of the state's forests. The Colorado pinyon has cultural meaning to agriculture, as strong piñon wood "plow heads" were used to break soil for crop planting at the state's earliest known agricultural settlements.
The pinyon or piñon pine group grows in southwestern North America, especially in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. The trees yield edible nuts , which are a staple food of Native Americans , and widely eaten as a snack and as an ingredient in New Mexican cuisine .
Members of the Colorado Cooperative Co. at work on the colony's irrigation ditch, circa 1900. Piñon was a town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.The town was 58 miles (93 km) south of Grand Junction, Colorado, along the San Miguel River and was created as a colony for the Colorado Cooperative Company. [1]
The main plant communities, or zones, are woodlands, mountain woodlands, and grassland and shrub. The woodland zone, or pinyon-juniper woodland, covers the largest area.. It consists of open woodlands of short trees, mostly pinyon pine (Pinus edulis throughout the ecoregion, and Pinus monophylla subsp. fallax in the southwestern portion of the ecoregion) and species of juniper (Juniperus spp
Single-leaf pinyon–Utah juniper woodland in northeastern Nevada near Overland Pass at the south end of the Ruby Mountains. Pinyon–juniper woodland, also spelled piñon–juniper woodland, is a biome found mid-elevations in arid regions of the Western United States, characterized by being an open forest dominated by low, bushy, evergreen junipers, pinyon pines, and their associates.
Pinus edulis - Colorado pinyon; Pinus flexilis - Limber pine; Pinus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine; Pinus lambertiana - Sugar pine; Pinus longaeva - Great Basin bristlecone pine; Pinus monophylla - Single-leaf pinyon; Pinus monticola - Western white pine; Pinus muricata - Bishop pine; Pinus ponderosa (syn. P. washoensis) - Ponderosa pine; Pinus ...
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The U.S. State of Colorado has designated 96 natural areas of the state for special protection, as of 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora , fauna , ecological ...
The pinyon–juniper plant community covers a large portion of Utah and the Canyonlands region. Singleleaf ash (Fraxinus anomala), and Utah serviceberry (Amelanchier utahensis) are codominants of pinyon pine and Utah juniper. In this region, the community occurs on rocky soils or jointed bedrock. [5]