Pearson - 1996 16 Christie, Liz, Tony, Emmey, and Geraldo from Parques. Throgh Est. Fortin Chacabuco, then through Alto Fortin (Conrad Bailey's new domain with its new Casco in a glorious setting), then to a cliff om the Jones Estancia. Quite a drive followed by a 2 or 3 km hike across a lush, sometimes swampy meadow. A few groves of nires, a few maitenes, Juncus, lots of Berberis clumps, Senecio, neneo, Baccharis, Colletia, violets. Near their tent a few of the islands of Berberis had rich dirt piled up underneath; no open holes but the earth mounds open up into smallish tunnels. We left 7 Shermans set in rocks at the bottom of the cliff at Liz's dig site, and 3 Shermans at the Berberis islands at her tent, and two steel traps at the earth mounds in those Berberis clumps. On the way home we saw red deer and one guanaco. Geraldo had been looking for huemul sign. A Puestero told him that there were 4 Dama deer thereabouts and that Liz probably had seen them. We saw one set of tuco burrows in a rocky steppe habitat on the way up the hill, but no signs of tucos in the big mallin that we walked across. Too wet, I presume. Conrad had recently dug some drainage/irrigation ditches across it; I presume they connect with a shallow lake at the west end of the mallin. Our owl cliff that we call Tehuel Malal is visible across its mallin to the south, only a few kilometers away. Sunny and warm all day. 30 November - Sunny and warm. Looked through some of the material from Liz's cliff. In three vials of mouse skulls and mandibles that she had picked from the "Surface Layer" containing perhaps 20 to 30 items, there were Auliscomys, Ako longi., Oryzomys, Reithrodon, tuco, Eligmodontia, and Euneomys; similar to John's fresh pellet collection except for the Euneomys. She had also left a sac of 10 pounds of 8-mesh screen material which was mostly rock chips, but Anita sorted through about a pound of it and separated out charcoal, stems, droppings, junk skeletal material, mandibles, and crania. It was from level 2, which she says is below the hare layer and the sheep layer (maybe 10 inches deep). It had most of the above species including a Euneomys. Some of the droppings look like Lagidium, other large ones are too