retama - rosal - cipres flats on while we are camped, the steep slope across to the Rio Mono has a few bananas, Quinta's new trap line (40ms) caught only 3 cipo lenji. The park guard Horacio Gioschino says that Indue to his vegetable garden and that there are no elks here. The owner of the Hosteria has been fired twice for killing "huemul menor". He also says that he has never heard the tucana here sing. Returns to Bariloche 4/1pm. On the way noted near our Veraceda site how mire scrub goes way up the big slopes and meets abruptly full-sized lenga forest, clear. Want to talk with the father of Ricardo Rence who runs a machine shop near the Hotel Armonia, he remembers a flowering of the bowlder at Glacialo but was slippery on the date, starting out at 1928 but later shifting to the 1930s. Ricardo's wife overheard us and took me up to her apartment and showed me a large photo-color satellite photo of this area including her weekend place at the headwaters of the Rio Villages, reached by an 8-lane dirt track beginning 3 km south of Sailers of the end of Zogo Guillermo. Probably can't cross the river without a "tractor". She mentioned Boris anchelof, maybe 5-25, who is an 89-year-old former head of Forestal and might remember bamboo flooms. She volunteered that at her Rio Villages place there are not only huemul but maras! and many tucanas. She also recommended that we get to touch with "Ecuone" = Asocion en defensa de la