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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 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 Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (also Pinon and Pinyon) is a 235,896 acre (955 km 2) U.S. Army base in southeastern Colorado. The Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS) is a training site for Fort Carson.
The pinyon or piñon pine group grows in southwestern North America, especially in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, with the single-leaf pinyon pine just reaching into southern Idaho. 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 .
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.
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Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's ...
Pinus edulis – Two-needle piñon or Colorado pinyon (when grown in Colorado) Pinus johannis – Johann's pinyon (includes P. discolor – Border pinyon) Pinus monophylla – Single-leaf pinyon; Pinus orizabensis – Orizaba pinyon; Pinus quadrifolia – Four-leaved pinyon or Parry pinyon; Pinus remota – Papershell pinyon or Texas pinyon