Pearson - 1995 3 of red deer on Jones ranch and other places nearby is higher than anywhere else in the world. Joanna says the flowering season is one or two weeks late this year. Took GPS readings. Home by 3:30. October 30.- Overnight temp 56. Morning sunny, warm, no wind. Drove out to Pampa Quemada to look at the bamboo clump that we clipped. The burned pampa has regenerated vigorously with lots of new Radal, retamo, Berberis, maiten, nire, rosa, and bamboo. Our unburned clump of bamboo had 9 new, live leafy culms, one dead (cut off at ground level, or broken), and 3 or 4 adult-leafy branches apparently sprouting at ground level or below ground from an old node. The leafy culms had no branches, nor did the leafy culms om the burned plants across the road. Went up to ECOTONO in the afternoon. Nadia Guthman was there. She had been trapping out at the airport grid and said there were numerous Oryzomys. She used respirator, rubber gloves, etc. because of the Hanta virus. She said that the people at Pergamino (Dra.Enria) had sent trappers to El Bolson and that they had caught something like 50 mice, all negtive for Hanta virus. Nadia is just finishing writing up her thesis. Rapoport was away. Day was warm, sunny, no wind, max 72. October 31.- Temp overnight 58. Cloudy but then cleared. Warm, sunny, not windy. Max 72, Drove up Cerro Otto to look at the two bamboo clumps. There were still numerous patches of snow about 1 foot deep, some of them still holding the tips of long arched bamboo culms. Lots of tuco earth cores, some of them lying on snow. The lenga leaves are out, the ground paved with a skin of lenga leaves (unlike last year), plus lots of downed lenga branches 2-3 inches in diameter. Very few birds beside wrens. No new bamboo shoots. Flavia, the girl baby-sitting Refugio Otto Meiling for Club Andino, was stalled on the road at Piedras Blancas; gave her a ride to town. November 1.- Temp minimum 47. Drove out to Llao Llao Peninsula to check bamboo. While stopped at the Marsh to make a GPS reading, Javier Bellati drove by, recognized us, and stopped to chat. He is still at INTA but no longer in the Fauna section. There were