How To Use pinyon In A Sentence
- In its place are less nutritious sod-forming grasses, pinyons and junipers, which choke out native grasses.
- Puffs of smoke billowed from underneath juniper and pinyon trees as flames licked at the trees. Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
- Vegetative cover is predominantly semi-desert grassland and arid shrubland, except for high elevation islands of oak, juniper, and pinyon pine woodland. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
- The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren. Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
- In the Carbonate Woodland Zone the pinyon – juniper woodland canopy overtops and spans the existing sagebrush and mountain brush communities. Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
- Ancient tree rings from pinyon pines have been used as sensitive "listening posts" to determine climate variability and in particular drought. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
- Dunn had inserted microphones into the pinyon pines that surround his home in Santa Fe and recorded a CD of the noises they captured. Beetle Mania
- The woodland zone in the most extensive, dominated by what is often called a pygmy forest of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) and several species of juniper (Juniperus spp.). Colorado Plateau shrublands
- Natural vegetation in this semiarid to dry-subhumid area is mostly short grass prairie; there is also mesquite – buffalograss in the southwest, sand sagebrush – bluestem prairie on dunes, and juniper – pinyon woodland in the western Panhandle. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
- Amid the gurgling of pine sap and slow flexing of the trees can be heard a stream of chirps: the calls of pinyon engraver beetles. Beetle Mania
