Pearson 1980 46 Sogo Steffen 500m, Rio Negro, Argentina Oct.25 Have been in Bariloche 5 days. One wee sprinkle, rest of time clear skies. Apple trees in full bloom and tulips, lilacs and Scotch broom just starting. Nighttime temperatures as low as -5°C, all below freezing. Buenos Aires Province suffering from drought. Left 9 a.m. for Sa Veraneda. Beberine darwinii in full bloom along Zags Moscardi. The scrubby wire leaves pretty well out of our Sa Veraneda, camphorts, but many close or the bigger trees on the grid just starting. The grid is quite dry, the sampler looking dry also; no sign of blooms. Found all traps (planted under snow last May). All except one were closed, 39 of them contained dead mice, two of which contained two dead mice. One Abodon div. was maybe 1 week dead, but all the others were completely dried up, surely > 1 month dead. The score (ground and skulks): see also October 28 4 Andesmye, 1 noto gardin, 15 Orzgonpe, 8 Abos dinacum, and 14 Abo longfulie. Total 42. See Oct. 28 for details. The park guard at Sago Moscardi was Carlos Rosada. Then drove to Sogo Steffen, very poor road, surely impassable when wet. The guard at Sogo Steffen was Giachino (no relation to the Intendants). The forest here is mostly cypress where cipres and wire, very little understory, almost no sampler (quills). The forest floor is littered with "freely" broken limbs of copine 3" to 8" diameter, surely the result of wet snow last winter. Just like the live oak at Hastings Reservation about 5 winters ago. Ranger Horacio Gischino says all this damage was done last May 11 - the snow that buried my traps, and that the lupas and wire still had leaves and so suffered damage also.