Pearson - 1995 19 Loteo Mirador de Puyehue. Lush meadows of daisy, red clover, amd buttercup. Up near the big cement water tank was a big clump of green vigorous big-leafed quila that had not bloomed. Then photoed in the forest. After lunch drove about 0.5km up the Antillanca road to the slope where Nicolas had showed us in 1993 the first little seedlings under a patch of dead quila. We looked in many places under the tangle of dead canes on this slope but at first found no seedlings, only a big orange nettle and new fuchsias. But then at one place we found 3 or 4 seedlings within a few yards of eachother. Maximum height was 15 inches, 5 or 6 culms including this year's shoot. Then walked salong the Pioneer Trail. Lots of unbloomed, narrow-leafed branched quila. At one place there were a dozen or more seedlings of big-leafed quila in the forest; they were bigger than the ones from Nicolas' place, with more culms. Photoed in the afternoon along the paved highway. Bamboo conclusons.- Almost all the big-leafed quila bloomed and died, but no new growth is visible unless you hunt for it in the dead tangles. We saw no evidence of seed dispersal. The narrow-leafed branched bamboo in the forest at Aguas Calientes did not bloom. It is almost surely another species. The dead canes still look highly flammable. A fire now would surely kill the seedlings, which have negligible rhizome development. December 10.- Left Aguas Calientes about 9:00. Sunny. Photos of farm and of dead quila climbing on blooming Notro. One place we stopped had a big clump 15 ft across of live, big-leafed quila surrounded by dead. No seedlings found. Flat tire between the border and Villa Angostura; new tire ruined. Lunch in Villa Angostura. Home to Bariloche about 5 p.m. Another brush fire burning on the east slope of Cerro Otto above the Pampa de Huenuleo. Last week's fire was said to have been set on purpose by poor people to make firewood available. December 11.- Bariloche. Sunny and warm in morning, cloudy in afteroon. Drove out to Pampa Quemada to look at bamboo, burned and unburned. Lots of tuco digging in both the burned and unburned areas. Didn't note any