Pearson - 1995 24 shoots yet. Marked the yearings with felt pen. November 8.- Puerto Blest. Censused from the meadow to El Abuelo and back. Only one blooming clump (at the north end). No seedlings seen anywhere on the census route, although a few clumps of juveniles maybe 10 years old. At clump D1 th old dead canes that bloomed years ago are still standing but have only a few remaining stubs of branches. No new shoots; 1 dead shoot (spiral parasite), 1 yearling and it had a dead top. No seedlings. One culm marked as a yearling in '83- '84 was broken off about 2 ft up. I think it was a big borer, as in another similar culm in an adjacent clump. At Clump D1 there were no new shoots; 10 yearlings (1 of them with dead parasitized top with green branches, another one skinny). Two dead shoots that I looked at had spiral parasites. Amita says there were 2 more dead shoots but I did not record them. 3 December. La Veranada. Nire leaves fully out. Warm, sunny. New shoots at E2 and E3 are up 4 to 8 inches. Many clumps across the road on the way into the lenga forest look as though they are dying without bloomiung. Some culms with all leave dead. Other culms with onylGy a few live branches at each node, all the other branches dead. The ground is rather dry, but grass, dandelions, cacho de cabra etc. are nice and green. December 11.- Looked at our plant at Pampa Quemada, across the road from the burn. We had cut all the culms at ground level,to simulate fire-kill, but this was last year, which was just one year after the fire had killed almost all the ones across the road. Our clump had numerous very leafy culms up to a meter tall, and 6 or 7 new shoots finger-diameter up to a half meter. No leafy tangle down low. Across the road, the burned culmps consist of a dense leafy tangle up to half meter, which seems to consist of branches from the topmost unburned node near ground level and which came up the year of the fire. Then leafy culms up to 2 m tall, then new shoots of this year. The big difference between the burned and the cut seems to be that the burned plants sent up a mat of branches from top nodes. Lots of tuco diggings.