Pearson - 1995 21 photographer from his paper Manana del Sur. He says that El Bolson has over $3,000 available for Hanta studies but that bureaucracy has it tied up somehow. Michael Christie is back from Montana and reports that Eileen's captive tucos in Berkeley have produced two litters. His son Tommy and John were going to ride up into the high country on the Cuyin Manzano, but the manager says that the owners are coming to shoot deer and they dont want the deer spooked by campers; also, the good horses are reserved for the hunters. Then Nadia and Mariana came by. Nothing new on the Hanta front. They reported that when they were using fluorescent powder on the mice on their airport study plot, they saw Oryzomys climbing around up in rosa mosqueta bushes. Then JoAnne Flueck came by. She wants to do a study of the competition between red deer and huemul, for her thesis. She is encounterng non-cooperation fromm the Parques research people especially Chehebar. 16 December.- Clear, windy, 60. JoAnne came by with her two female "field assistants", one of whom had hiked to Refugio Frey from the bottom of the lifts at Cerro Catedral; 2 hours she said. Still a big snowfield of soft snow above the lake at Refugio Frey. They were all going tomorrow with horses up onto the Cuyin Manzano up the Rio Minero. 17 December.- Sunny and warm. Max temperature during the day was 80. Drove out to the Llao Llao peninsula. Bamboo shoots were up as much as .5m, but not many of them. Walked into the forest on a trail beginning across from the parkguard house. Lots of big old cipres and coihue trees. Lots of down tees, trail blocked at several places. The bamboo overhangs and occludes the trail also, but does not invade out onto the trail. Found a big dead Geoxus lying in the trail; crushed skull. Years ago I found another dead Geoxus in the trail on Cerro Otto. Maybe they have a shrewlike odor that repels carnivores? Several big old dead rosa mosqueta bushes in the middle of the forest. In other clearings in the forest, presumably where big trees or limbs had fallen, were younger rosa tangles. One or more brush fires still burning on Cerro Carbon and Cerro Otto. The paper says that there were