A beetle no bigger than a grain of rice is threatening to do a Paul-Bunyan-size job on area pinon pines. Aided by drought, the pinon bark beetle is killing off an increasing number of pinon trees in ...
When I bought land west of Santa Fe in the late 1980s, it felt like home to me even before I physically moved there in 1992. What made it home were the piñon pines, that forest of short, squat trees.