Pearson - 1996 it might be up at the University under the care of Dora Grigera, but I didnt go look for it. Chehebar, Monica, Miguel Gross, and Gustavo Iglesias were all there. Gustavo wants a modem and more memory for the laptop computer that I gave him. In the afternoon Julietta von Thungen came by (after a dentist appointment upstairs). She had been in Cordoba for a while taking a course of some sort, and was just back from the SAREM meetings in San Luis. Lots of attendance. She led a workshoop on Managment, Conservation and Economic importance of the Carnivores in Argentina. Jim Kenagy is listed in the program. Julietta is still at INTA, as is Bonino, and is involved in a guanaco program. They are shearing guanacos and hope to start a cottage industry. Her family has abandoned their Estancia in Santa Cruz Province, as have many other estancieros. The eruption of Volcan Hudson was the last straw. The sheep were already weak from years of drought; the ashfall covered up or absorbed the available surface water. She agreed that there are not many hares squashed on the roads. She thinks the condors are pretty much restricted to this side of the steppe; she sees them at Pilcaniyeu but not much east of there. She says they are always at La Fragua, and often at the Buitrero up the Rio Nirihuao. 19 November - Morning cloudy but then sunny. Liz and Tony Barnosky came by. With Michael they found a good cave on the east? face of the condor cliff at Lago de los Juncos. Lots of owl pellets in it, but access was difficult because San Ramon had failed to find a key to the gate giving access, so they had to hike up past Marful's. They also hiked around the massif containing the bat cave across the road from Lago Los Juncos and found some good deposits on the back side, including bat droppings. Saw barn owls. Liz described what sounded like a Gerrhonauetes nest on the condor cliff. Their babysitter is terrified of the Hanta virus, the water, the vegetables, etc. Liz says that Brian Hjelle from Albuquerque is coming to El Bolson tomorrow? or soon.