■Thursday, September 25, 1952
The Pinyon Pine
Thousands of Am ericans eat
pine tree seeds. As much as
eight million pounds of the n u t­
like seeds of the pinyon pine have
been shipped from our Southw est
in one year. The nut is rich and
tasty.
Actually there is nothing new
about the eating of pinyon nuts.
Indian nuts pinones (pronounced
peen-youn-ees), as the Mexicans
call them. In Europe the seed of
the pinyon. or stone pine, has been
eaten since tim e immemorial.
There the nut is called pignoli».
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Pinyon Pine
C l 952 National Wildlife Federation
The early Spanish explorer Cabe-
za de Baca found the Indian using
pounded nuts for flour. He con­
sidered the New W orld pinyon
nuts b etter than those of Spain.
Today dark-eyed children of Mex­
ican extraction sell little bags of
pinones to passing m otorists.
Many wild creatures also have
found th at the nuts are good eat-
Ung. according to the National
Wildlife Federation. Turkeys and
and band-tailed pigeons fatten on
them. They provide 71% of the
food of the beautiful white-headed
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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON
woodpecker. The pinyon jay got
its name because it feeds so ex­
tensively upon the seeds of this
tree. Num erous rodents, which
in tu rn become food for larger an­
imals. rely upon them.
Surprisingly, the scrubby, m is­
shapen, unpretentious pinyon pine
played a m ajor role in the dev­
elopment of our great Southwest.
It is the common evergreen seen
with junipers (cedars) in sc a tte r­
ed, open growth between the des­
e rt and the tall tim ber of New
Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Colorado
and California and is generally
considered by travelers to be ra th ­
er picturesque but w orthless weed
tree. It is so im portant today,
however, and has played so prom ­
inent a part in history’, th a t both
New Mexico and Arizona have
declared it their sta te tree.
E arly settlers found th at it
made a hot fire and was invalu­
able for cookingand heating. To­
gether with the juniper it served
for building ranch houses, fences
and corrals. The dim inutive pine
was cut for props in the mines
and cross-ties for the early rail­
roads. It still the C hristm as tree
of the Spanish-speaking people
and the decoration for special oc­
ca sio n . The fragrant cones, 1’2
to 2 inches long, are used com m er­
cially to province incense.
The pinwon pine (pinus edulisl
has a short bole and is usually un­
Screened Sand, and Grand
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der 20 feet tall. It is recognized!
by its stiff, short, dark green J
needles \ to 1 inches long, two A in b u Ia n C C ................. . 2 1 8 1
F o r sale now at the Pilot office
to the cluster. A single-leaf pin-, Bill Brown, police
2 S O “ hlch. w11! « ' anv » u « in c« ; «x-i.i
yon (pinus m onophylla) occupies
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jy security deduction slips, receipts,
the w estern part of the range.
City Recorder
2854 S**les t>ooks, etc. O rders printed
Originally, valuable range gras­ F i r e
•» i $ i I
fit the individual at m oderate
ses grew among the scattered ju n ­
cost in quantity lots.
ipers and pinyon pines In large
areas now, as a result of over-
grazing, the grasses have given
way to weeds, the trees have been
cut for m an’s use or torn out
COMPLETELY EURNISIIED
by bulldozers to m ake room for
HOUSEKEEPING—by week or month
more forage. Soil erosion is
ruining the land. The N ational
Wildlife Federation cautions that
SOUTH O F BROOKINGS
the value of the pinyon pine as
shelter for soil, for livestock, for
range grasses may not yet have
been thoroughly assessered. It
grows very slowly, they say. Let
us not lose this honored, p ictu r­
esque and valuable citizen
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