A knowledge base on pine nuts and pinon trees

Growing American pinon pine nut trees (Pinus edulis, monophylla)

• Grow your own pine nuts - planting instructions

Global production and trade in pine nuts

• Why do Americans eat Chinese pine nuts? Global Information on Pine Nut Production
• Global Market & Potential for US Pine Nuts

Saving America's pine nuts: exposing fuel, biomass and other agendas

• Annotated list of documents on file
• Destruction of America's pine nut groves (millions of acres chained).
• Pine Nuts, Politics & Public Lands (good intro article)
• Who's behind Fuel Reductions Agendas - Forest to Fuel timeline
• Challenging government's deforestation policies: American Lands Alliance legal action

Burning at the stake: "biomass" means "body of life"

• Bad science destroys the world's greatest food resource (good intro article)
• Reducing America's pine nut forests to biomass fuel
• Seeds of destruction: burning pine nut trees for "power" (the biomass agenda)

Burning fire issues

• Fire ecology under fire: Cheatgrass but you won't cheat Penny!
• Large forest fires list for 1999, Nevada
• Large Nevada Pine Nut Forest Fires for 1999 (Map)
• Large Nevada Pine Nut Forest Fires for 2000 (Map)
• Ely District Managed, Natural & Prescribed Fire Plan Area (map)

Standing up for the pinon: a timeline of Penny's struggle with BLM

• Destroying America's pine nut groves while importing pine nuts from China? (Letter, Dated 8/28/00)
• Is it a good idea to burn America's pine nut forests? (Letter, Dated 11/17/00)
• Native Americans speak up: Government, leave our pine nut trees alone! (Letter, Dated 1/25/01)
• Will there be responsible stewardship of pinon forests on public lands? (Letter, Dated 3/19/01)
• Calling for responsible forest management and reverence to the land (Letter, Dated 7/26/01)
• Pinon pine nut trees' last frontier? (Letter, Dated 8/16/01)
• Standing up for the pinyon (Letter, Dated 11/20/02)
• 11 million acres of pine nuts! (Letter, Dated 4/10/03)
• Battling over the Battle Mountain (Letter, Dated 8/15/03)
• Shaky policies, unsustainable economies: ignoring the values of pine nut trees (Letter, Dated 9/10/03)
• Rollback to slash-and-burn pine nut forest "management"? (Letter, Dated 12/9/03)

Pinon forest health: pinyon's dramatic die-off

• Pinon Pine Die-Off News

Nuclear pollution issues

• Beyond "ground zero": Nevada's radioactive pollution
• Radiological Effluents from US Continental Tests
• Nuclear footprint: Areas subject to Federal Facilities Agreement, Map

History of American pine nuts

• History reported in newspapers (collected by Pinyon Penny

Pinyon harvest reports

• Pine nut harvest report 2005

Non-timber forest products: the future of sustainable forestry

• About non-timber forest products
• Non-timber forest products (NNFP Digest 3, Dated 8/31/04)

Need more? I have TONS more!

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