Tlahuicole Morales Cortes was far up a piñon tree as a pack of people stooped over below him on the slopes of the rocky landscape northeast of Santa Fe, their heads lowered and eyes trained ...

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Arizona and New Mexico used to belong to Spain and then Mexico before the US took control in 1848 following the Mexican-American ... and ponderosa and pinyon pines along the path of the stream.

Pinyon jays often gather pine nuts and create caches near trees and in the ground to prepare for winter and spring. Some unused caches later germinate into trees or stands ...

Drive through some of the piñon stands in northern Arizona and you'll probably find people out gathering the cherished nuts.

Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously sprinkled onto the ground. Next to her lay a blue tarp to catch ...

A group of six people — Morales Cortes along with family members Juan Pereida, who lives in Santa Fe — were fanning out on an embankment beneath a piñon pine offering an abundance of nuts ...

Tlahuicole Morales Cortes was far up a piñon tree as a pack of people stooped over below him on the slopes of the rocky landscape northeast of Santa Fe, their heads lowered and eyes trained ...

Instead, he aims for a pine tree in a lot next to his house in Illinois. “I just tell myself to hit the tree,” Seibert said. “We go like three days a week. My wife will film me. My daughter ...