Pearson - 1996 18 which were being harvested, big retamos burned but root-sprouting. Scattered low-down lengas were killed, but the fire did not spread much into dense lenga. Up at the Refugio everything was OK. The lone bamboo clump along the Lake trail had many new tall yearling culms, the entire clump was much bigger and healthier than the last time we saw it (when it had been browsed by hares or elk or cows). Then we walked up to the Mirador, accomapnied by the caretaker's cat, which caught two lizards on the way and attracted numerous birds which mobbed it. A Magellanic woodpecker paid no attention to it. Then Patricia Fierro came by. She wondered if we wanted to trap on Isla Huemul. The concessioneer wants to be able to say tha the Isla is Hanta-free. We arranged to set traps over saturday night, but then Jim Mills phoned from El Bolson and wants to come to Bariloche Friday or Saturday, so we cancelled out of the Isla Huemul trip. I talked to Mills on the phone and he is catching very few mice at El Bolson. Is going to trap Lago Puelo tomorrow, and then maybe trap near Bariloche. 4 December - Left 2 p.m. for Dolly Frey's across the Lake. Tommy Christie led the way in his jeep. At Dolly's house we visited with her in her house/museum with arrow heads etc. and a couple of dead mice, then transferred all our stuff into the jeep and drove on up to the Refugio at 1300m. It is by a stream in overmature lenga forest on the edge of a meadow. The forest has lots of heavily browsed bamboo, and lots of Berberis percei. There is a cabin, but Dolly had forgtotten the combination lock numbers. Lots of firewood already cut. Sage, Anita, and I put out traps. My line was in pure lenga forest across the meadow from camp, which is where I think Eileen et al cought their Octodon last year: 10 steel jump traps and 20 Shermans. Also 4 more jump traps nearer camp including one under the cabin. My forest had oodles of fallen logs, heavy browsing by horses, no elk droppings seen. Sage set on the slope between the meadow and the stream down to the southeast with much more vegetaion such as chaura, bamboo, and some Berberis calafate type; lots of logs. He set 10 jump traps, 18 Shermans, and 10 snap traps. Anita had two lines, one around an old log corral below camp, not