The two wildfires burning in northern Arizona were both ignited by lightning strikes, but the vegetation fueling the blazes can lead to different wildfire characteristics and response strategies from ...

Wildfires can burn and spread differently depending on what vegetation they burn. The two fires in northern Arizona have ...

A Pinyon Jay perches on a pine tree branch at Bandelier. Photo by Sally King PEEC NEWS RELEASE The Pajarito Environmental ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

The United States has two primary species of pinyon pine trees, Shriver explained. “One is found mostly in the Great Basin — so, Nevada and Western Utah primarily and also eastern California.

The emblem displays a Wèš (chickadee) resting on a pinyon pine with the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe in the background. A close look reveals native Lahonton cutthroat trout swimming in the lake.

The fight to save the blue birds is struggling to take off. Defenders of Wildfire petitioned he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to officially list the pinyon jay as an endangered species in April 2022.

Surviving desert heat, alpine cold, and meager rainfall each year, two-needle pinyon pines (Pinus edulis) are the backbone of many forests in the southwestern United States. Their stout branches ...

150 years of grazing, fire suppression, and other land-use changes have transformed these forests. Surviving desert heat, alpine cold, and meager rainfall each year, two-needle pinyon pines (Pinus ...

The bird's range pretty much patterns with the distribution of two-needled and one-needled pinyon pines, except for jay populations that live in ponderosa pine forests in the Northwest. Though widely ...

Environmentalists are now threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) after significant bureaucratic delays in determining whether the Pinyon Jay deserves increased habitat protections ...