Seeking Insight into Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands, the Southwest’s Defining Forests

from Nature Notes · host Andrew Stuart

PJ woodlands are the Southwest’s dominant forest type, covering 100 million acres here. Pinyons typically top out at 20 feet – and alongside diverse junipers, they thrive in dry, rocky places where Ponderosas, firs and aspens can’t make it.

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