Pearson - 1993 5 Saw Adrian on the street as we returned. Over 100 papers submitted for the SAREM meetings, including Mares, Kirsch, Phillips. 8 November- Bariloche. Clear, not windy. Went out to INTA and talked with Bonino and Carlos Lopez (the Volcan Hudson man). His report on Hudson has not been published. Julietta von Thungen is in Cordoba taking some course. They had graphs of rainfall for the past year in Bariloche and Pilcaniyeu. Way above normal, but April not as above normal as June. Lopez said bamboo seems to occur only above 1500mm of precipitation. He has data on organic content of soils etc., and has been studying a slight eruption of the volcano at Copahue. Bonino is doing a non- technical Mammals of Patagonia. Visited Christie's office, but only Miguel Gross was there. He says Gallopin is fine, working hard, Isobel not so well, perhaps because of the climate in Colombia. Elida Bettinelli came by; Marcello is working on paintings for the Interpretative Center at Puerto Blest. SNAP is trying to run one bird expedition per month. The Liao Liao Hotel got permission to cut some trees for more holes on the golf course, but then they cut more than their quota etc. Then Lawrence Simpson came by. He has been following for some time three nesting pairs of aquila moras (Gerrhonoetes), each in a different habitat. Says condors on the ranch are doing well. He still doesn't see Lagidium. La Riviere is head of National Parks again, The park guards all want to live in town instead of out in the woods, so La Riviere thinks he will have to train a whole new cohort of guards. The new bridge over the Rio Cullin Manzano washed out in the winter floods;it was only 8 months old and can be seen stranded on an island in the middle of the river. He has seen a single red bat, but says lots of dark bats in the big house on the Estancia. He says there are so many tucos in a high meadow on the north side of the Rio Traful near two lakes (Las Mellizas) that you can't run a horse over the ground. He also had a barn owl and a horned owl nesting about 50 m apart. Peter Simpson has retired from Estancia Chacabuco but is a consultant on red deer management. Arranged with Sr.Cingolani for an apartment for Peg Smith. 9 November- Bariloche. Went to the National Park office and talked with Chehebar, Eduardo Ramilo and Tamara Olson the Peace Corp girl. She is engaged to the Park