Pearson - 1995 2 Neququen/La Pampa, BA. He says the city council of Bariloche opposes the new dam, but thinks that the feds will do what they please (control water flow into Alicura Reservoir, Chocon, and Piedra de Aguila). We had not run into any of our friends yet when we drove out to Las Victorias to have a clear shot at the satellites to initaize our GPS. We parked on a little- used unpaved side street and were fussing with the GPS when a car came and squeeed by: it was Miguel Gross. He is building a house out there! Gallopín and Isobel seem to be fine, are still in Venezuela, and their house in Bariloche is up for sale. Miguel is working for Parques, using GPS fed into a computer to plot trails in the national parks. Michael Christie came by at about 8 p.m. Just back from Chile where he had been looking at herp specimens in Concepcion. He wants to move away from Bariloche, maybe away from Argentina. He says that the proposed dam at the "Second Angostura" of the Rio Limay would serve to make Lake Nahuel Huapi into a huge reservoir that could be used to control the levels in Alicura etc, downstream. The level of the Lake would fluctuate something like 10 or 20 meters. The plan includes blasting out the exit at Nahuel Huapi to make it possible to lower the level farther. Christie has caught a Euneomys mordax and Ctenomys maulinus at the pass with Araucarias between Alumine and Zapala. This is somewhat south of Pino Hachado. The habitat for the mordax was as described before, and they also seemed to be using the Ctenomys burrows. He has a couple more frozen sociabilis left him by Eileen. Maximum temp during the day was 74, not windy. October 29.- Day warm, sunny, no wind; max temp. 76. Drove out to Lago Los Juncos with Werner Flueck and Joanna. Lots of water in the lake. Flamingos, black-necked swans, oodles of coots, a few geese, small grebes, a few ducks, and many white Coscoroba swans. Saw no condors. At Marful's meadow beyond the lake, I saw no Reithrodon sign out in the meadow, and a few old sign on higher ground near the railroad track. Anita saw a few signs in the meadow. Obviously not many Reithros around. The meadow was quite dry, although water was running in the little stream. Werner says the density