Yellow-crowned night heron

The wet season is roughly June to October, the dry season November to May, and the region receives roughly 50 inches of rainfall per year.

The Vallarta Pine shares its native habitat with Encino armarillo, southern flannel moth, black-nosed lizard, magnificent frigatebird, ocelot, streaked-backed oriole, common four-clawed gecko, zebra plant, shinglewood, green jay, Mexican weeping bamboo, beaded lizard, Mexican Pink Tarantula, Common Fieldcap, Yellow-Crowned Night Heron, Buttercup Tree, Gracie's Warbler, Many-Lined Whiptail, Mexican Ruellia, Incan Dove, Western Spiny-Tailed Iguana, Jalisco Juniper, Green Iguana, Mexican Tree Frog, Orange-Fronted Parakeet, Brown Pelican, Common Spurwing, and many, many more.

The Vallarta Pine is primarily threatened by human habitat destruction and continued encroachment.

Historically, and still today, Madrian pine oak woodlands have been cleared for logging, for agricultural planting, and for livestock grazing, destroying and fragmenting the Vallarta Pines range.