Editing Pinus edulis (section)

==Uses==
The [[edible seeds]],<ref name=Knopf>{{cite book |last=Whitney |first=Stephen |title=Western Forests (The Audubon Society Nature Guides) |date=1985 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-394-73127-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/westernforests00whit/page/414 414] |url=https://archive.org/details/westernforests00whit/page/414 }}</ref> [[pine nut]]s, are extensively collected throughout its range; in many areas, the seed harvest rights are owned by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes, for whom the species is of immense cultural and economic importance.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fischer|first=Karen|date=December 6, 2021|title=In New Mexico, Money Grows on Trees|url=https://www.eater.com/22812750/picking-selling-business-pinon-nuts-harvest-new-mexico-navajo-nation|access-date=December 6, 2021|website=[[Eater (website)|Eater]]}}</ref> They can be stored for a year when unshelled.<ref name=Peattie/>

Archaeologist [[Harold S. Gladwin]] described [[pit-house]]s constructed by southwestern Native Americans {{circa}}&nbsp;400–900&nbsp;CE; these were fortified with posts made from Pinyon trunks and coated with mud.<ref>{{cite book |last=Peattie |first=Donald Culross |author-link=Donald C. Peattie |title=A Natural History of Western Trees |year=1953 |publisher=[[Bonanza Books]] |location=New York |page=70}}</ref>

Colorado pinyon is also occasionally planted as an ornamental tree and sometimes used as a [[Christmas tree]].