Pearson - 1993 2 gram Reithro. The vegetation on their study plot near the airport is becoming lusher, partly because of increasing rainfall and partly because grazing has been kept off. The first issue of Mastozoologia Neotropical is to be ready for the SAREM meetings in December. They are soliciting manuscripts in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. In the afternoon drove up Cerro Otto to inspect the two bamboo clumps. Notro not yet blooming. The meadow not grazed but not very dense grass. Numerous tuco earth cores. A large number of fallen Nothofagus (lenga) branches. They were live branches from healthy second-growth trees, mostly 2.5 to 6 inches in diameter. Maybe a late wet snow? The fallen branches had green leaves just unfolding. The upper bamboo clump had numerous skinny yearling culms, some dead shoots. Amancay just coming up, no new bamboo shoots yet. Heard Fio Fios and big woodpeckers. The lower bamboo clump had several yearling culms. Scores of new houses visible on the flats below (= Pampa de Huenuleo). Cool and cloudy all day, but clearing in late afternoon. Clara Bosch came by. She is babysitting children at Christie's house (=Gallopin's former house). 3 November. Bariloche. Sunny and warm all day. Ecotono in the morning and saw Joanna Fluek-Smith and Werner. They say the red deer are abundant and fat, but with small antlers. They found a population of huemuls west of 5 de Mayo in Chubut Province. They did not actually see the huemuls but found 14 or 17 carcases, some of them dead fairly recently. They still do not have permits to drive the two vehicles they brought with them 3 years ago. Drove out to Laguna Los Juncos at Perito Moreno in the afternoon. Lots of water in it. Then walked across the Reithrodon pampa at Marful's and saw no sign of Reithros out on this flat, although there were scattered holes and droppings between the railroad and the road. The pampa looked as though it might have been underwater, and one of the fences along the railway had weeds hung in the wires indicating very high water. Numerous big clumps of neneo (Mulinum) in low places were dead; drowned? People say that in one weekend last April they received half of a full year's suppy of rain; bridges were washed out, etc. At Marful's saw one Condor; also one carancho near a big nest where caranchos had nested in earlier