I was sitting under the shade of a pinyon tree writing, while Chambers was sweating like a "Nigger at election.
Just about sundown as I turned a sharp curve, near the top of the long chain of high mountains which run parallel with the river, I came in sight of both of my ponies staked to a pinyon tree, grazing.
Over the remaining two-thirds of the area, where the slopes are too warm and dry for the big pine, the hardy pinyon pine and the juniper produce the "pygmy forest" growth common in the middle elevations of the Southwest.
But the pinyon does not bear every year; there are off years, as with other trees, and the Squirrels might be in a bad way if they had no other supply of food to lay up for the winter.
Illustration] The pinyons, or nuts of the pinyon pine, are perhaps the most delicious nuts in all the lap of bountiful dame Nature, from fir belt in the north to equatorial heat and on to far Fuego.
Dead cedar and pinyon trees lay everywhere, with their contorted limbs reaching out like the arms of a devil-fish.
The brush pounded my legs and clutched and tore my clothes; the wind whistled; the pinyon branches cut and whipped my face.
We caught up with him on the brink of another ravine deeper and craggier than the first, full of dead, gnarled pinyon and splintered rocks.
At the end of the pinyon thicket Satan overhauled Jones's bay, and we entered the open forest together.
He saw us, and sprang into the pinyon scrub with the leap of a scared deer.
I'll take my stand by the scrub pinyon there so I can get a hitch if I rope him.
At another spot, which Sounder climbed, he lassoed a pinyon above, and walked up with his feet slipping from under him at every step.
I saw Don and Sounder run from the pinyon into the open slide, and heard their impetuous burst of wild yelps as they saw their game.
She entered the clump of trees, and bumped her nose against the pinyon Old Tom was in, and looked up like a dog that knew her business.
In a low, stubby pinyon tree, scarce twenty feet from us, was a tawny form.
I slid down the dead pinyon and jumped nearly twenty feet to the soft sand below, and after putting a loaded clip in my rifle, began kangaroo leaps down the slope.
Satan sent the dust flying and the pinyon branches crashing.
At the first clump of pinyon pines, we made dry camp.
I took long strides and jumps, and slid over rocks, and swung on pinyon branches, and covered distance like a rolling stone.
Moze had begun to climb the thick, many-branched, low pinyon tree.
You smell the pungent odor of pine resin and follow it to its source, a pinyon oozing crystal drops from dozens of holes.
If you climb the foot trail to Juniper Flat through the thickly grassed woodlands above the Basin, you will pass more than one dead mescal with its towering bloomstalk supported by the limbs of some pinyon pine.
Suddenly, masses of trees—junipers, little oak trees, and pinyon pines—higher up in the drainages that crease the mountainside.
You can easily identify pinyon and juniper trees, but the oaks are often hard to tell apart because they tend to hybridize.
They feature the same junipers and pinyon pines and the same pricklypear and century plant, but the difference is the grass.
Mustard, nothing daunted, scrambled to his feet with an angry roar, the blood trickling from his injured nose, and pluckily began digging his claws into the bark of the pinyon tree, up which he slowly pulled himself again.
But it was a trying moment for Tad Butler, down there alone in the branches of the pinyon tree, with fifty feet of nothingness beneath him and a sheer wall that extended an equal distance above him.
At last, the thread of light contracted into a point, and the watching guide knew that the courageous boy had finally reached the pinyon tree.
Lodged in the branches of a pinyon tree, I think it is.
The vegetation at the above-named localities is a combination of brush and grasses that are both more luxuriant than in areas dominated by pinyon and juniper on the more southern and altitudinally lower part of the top of the Mesa where no M.
Quaintance found near the rimrock a quarter of a mile from the prairie-dog town the skeletons of two prairie dogs between a sliver of a dead pinyon branch and the branch itself.
It contained no pine or juniper in 1956 despite attempted reforestation in the thirties and the presence of a stand of pinyon and juniper (shown above) only one quarter of a mile away.
The vegetation of the Mesa is illustrated in Plates 1 and 2, and consists predominantly of pinyon pine, Pinus edulis Engelm.
Both were shot over the road in pinyon and juniper.
Spencer found that porcupines damage trees in a characteristic manner, and that damage to a pinyon pine was evident as long as the tree lived.
Little evidence of pocket gophers was found on unusually rocky slopes, steep slopes, or in stands of pinyon and juniper or in relatively pure stands of oak-brush.
Possibly fire in the last three or four hundred years on the higher parts of the Mesa has been a factor in producing chaparral there, rather than pinyon and juniper.
On the Mesa Verde, pinyon and juniper trees must be present in order for P.
Another species of the same genus, the pinyon mouse, P.
The pinyon mouse lives mostly in southwestern North America, occurring from central Oregon and southern Wyoming to northern Oaxaca.
Pinyon mice were abundant in a variety of associations within the pinyon-juniper woodland.
Shrubs become more abundant and pinyon and juniper trees become less abundant as one approaches the drainage.
Chewed pinyon nuts and juniper seeds also were present in the nest.
The vegetation of the trapping area was predominantly Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush), interspersed with a few scattered seedlings of pinyon and juniper.
Amelanchier, Cercocarpos and Fendlera) were codominant withpinyon pines and Utah junipers.
Chewed cones of pinyon pine and chewed juniper seeds were on the ground.
A small nest of shredded juniper bark was found inside the log, and there were numerous nuts of pinyon pine and seeds of Utah juniper that had been gnawed open.
Pinyon pine and Utah juniper trees are encroaching upon this area, and scattered trees are present throughout the sagebrush.
Almost all of the pinyon pine trees that were killed by that fire have since decayed; their former presence is verified only by the crumbling remnants of their trunks that lie on the ground throughout the burned area.
Captive mice were especially fond of pinyon nuts, and these probably provide a substantial part of the diet of Peromyscus in the autumn and early winter.
They dumped the seed in the ground and went on about their business; when it ripened they returned to harvest the crop, much as they went each year to harvest the pinyon crop when it was ripe.
If only I had the time," drawled Jim, "I'd go across to the Pinyon mountains and git a tree.
Seems you didn't have time to go to the Pinyon hills and fetch one back.
Still, I reckon I ain't over-likely to cut no cherry-trees over to the Pinyon hills.
The question of beds was easily answered, for the mats of soft needles under pinyon and cedar would be comfortable places to sleep.
From this point the rise of ground was more perceptible, and straggling cedars led the eye on to a purple slope that merged into green of pinyon and pine.
They entered the pinyon grove and passed the cabin where the tragedy had been enacted.
He could see the dark splits between the sloping curved walls, the pinyon patches in the amphitheater under the circled walls.
Pinyon and cedar trees surrounded the little log and stone houses, and along the walls of the canyon stood sharp-pointed, dark-green spruce-trees.
As pinyon "nuts," they also find their way into gourmet and specialty food shops.
Different from the stockypinyon and juniper on top and different from the leafy green cottonwoods in the bottom.
Porcupines like to eat pinyon bark at times, and this pinyon must be pretty tasty.
Under ideal conditions, pinyon may grow into quite respectable trees!
With pinyon pine, they often form a dense "pigmy forest" of short, burly trees.
Slowly, digging his claws into the dirt, biting at the rope that held him fast, the cat was drawn toward the pinyon tree despite all his struggles.
Tad had sprung around to the side of the pinyon tree indicated by Chunky.
Choosing a low, bushy pinyon tree as best suited to the purposes of a lazy climber, Stacy climbed it, grunting and grumbling unintelligibly.
I saw a Louisiana tanager; the pinyon jays were everywhere; ravens, true birds of the wilderness, croaked hoarsely.
It was a dry region, but with plenty of grama-grass, and much of it covered with an open forest of pinyon and cedar.
On that slope anything that started rolling never stopped unless it went against one of the rare pine or pinyon trees.
The Indian encampments in the pinyon forests in the fall of the year are among the most picturesque features of these degenerate days of the aborigines.
I refer to the pinyon pine, of which there are several species.
A similar but less marked change occurs among the Pacific mountains, where the scattered growths of oaks, pinyon pines, sycamores, etc.
Both the pinyon and the camass are largely utilized even at the present day for food by the Indians.
Pinyon pines clustered in little clumps along the level floor of the pass.
The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to pinyon pine growing out of rocky soil.
At the head of Grandview Canyon, tracks indicated that a coyote had foraged for about one half mile along the edge of a tract of dense oak and pinyon growth.
Because the mammalian populations of the pinyon belt and the juniper belt are somewhat different, the mammals of these areas are most conveniently taken up separately.
Dipodomys panamintinus mohavensis= (Grinnell) Panamint Kangaroo Rat This rat is common in the Joshua tree and juniper belts, and locally penetrates the pinyon belt at about 5000 feet elevation.
Many of the flats of the pinyon belt are grown to basin sagebrush.
The mouse is absent from the higher chaparral and pinyon-covered slopes, but is present on south slopes in the pinyon belt where more open growths of pinyons and scrub oaks are interspersed with yucca.
None was found on the pinyon slopes, possibly because of the competition offered there by Eutamias merriami, or because the rocky nature of the soil there rendered burrowing difficult.
When Theodore Roosevelt came up once more, the cougar was in another pinyon tree, with the hounds in a semicircle on the ground below.
The cougar was at last located by the hounds in a large pinyon on the side of a hill.
Pinyon nuts, acorns, chokecherries, and other stone fruits all are gathered in season.
The woodrat, which tonight may be deep within its fortress of rock and branches, will be remembered and called upon again tomorrow when it may be out foraging for pinyon nuts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinyon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
