He also has the idea that Nothofagus, although it doesn't enrich the soil, at least returns everything that it uses up. Ceiprea "drives out the soil" and is hooked into a cycle of 1000-1500 yrs, returning to ceiprea through a freshy stage. The bambos, like the Nothofagus, returns everything to the soil. Fire alters regenerates the forest; after a forest full of trees desecded with liken is overmature?. Gloss-leaves are the "orange of the poor". Eat raw, but look for a worm. Number of rats seem to have peaked in March (of 1940? or 1941?) april 17 Barilocks. Started to snow again in mid-morning. Stopped to see Hilda hemfold on the way to Puerto Vaneles, about 9:15 AM. Saw 2 hummingbirds were visible around her feeder. She feeds it with 1 cup of sugar solution twice a day, and her next-door neighbor feeds hers three times per day. At 15 cal/bird/day this works out to 70 hummers. Stopped snowing about 11, then some drizzle. Went to Puerto Velest on the 11:30 launch. No rain en route, but cold. Abel Baste said they had about 10 cm of snow yesterday (about same as Barilocks). From 2:30 to 6 we set the grid (large shermans throughout, dictated with rolled oats, numerous patches of snow in the forest; especially in and around bambos clumps. Fungi everywhere, all colors. Some standing water on the grid, unlike previous years. The tribe pretty much unchanged except for some fallen dead branches. Saw + heard a couple of Chucacos. Set 20 museum specials in the meadow under the bambos ledge around the restrooms, under some bambos clumps near the ruins,