Pearson - 1997 17 7,24,52,47,48,86,130,26,135,80,141,193,124,46,28,21,18 ,20. Then November 1: 6,10,70,275,25,228,6,60,62. Then we set traps in the woods behind this beach (at the west end of the road to Cinco Saltos). My line was 33 Shermans and 11 MS in rather open forest, only occasional clumps of bamboo; mostly cipres, coihue, radial. Anita set 36 Shermans and 11 MS. Her line had green grass and rosa mosqueta, but mostly forest. Finished setting at 8 p.m. Saw no mice. Walked along a nice beach at the southern end of Lake Futalaufquen but saw no dead carcasses. Then back to Prieto's house near Park Headquarters. 29 November.- Mornig clear. Our traps (22 MS and 68 Shermans=90) held 9 Oligoryzomys, 16 Abro longi, and 21 Abro oliv. = 51 = 56.4% trap success for all mice and 10.0 trap success for Oligos. Julios wife says he was using 4 or 5 pitfalls along the beach. All day skinning, then walked up to a hilltop with Prieto on the trail to the indian pictographs. Maitens, rosa, Scotch broom, Gunnera, Notro, nire, coihue, Berberis darwini, calafate, a few neneo, one big Colletia, As you look toward Esquel, you can see that here we are not far removed from the steppe, hence it is not a surprise that the Abro. olivaceus look more steppe-like than forest-like. Check tail lengths etc. Cold drizzle in the afternoon. Annual rainfall here is 1800 mm. 30 November.- Left Villa Futalaufquen about 10 a.m. and drove north along the east side of the lake. Several stops along the lake, no dead mice on the beaches. There is almost no bamboo along this road, but looking across the lake you can see a lower band of coihue, an upper band of lenga, and a sea of bamboo in between with no trees. Stopped at Hosteria Hume Hue at lunchtime. The senora there says no unusual number of mice. Parkguard Gustavo and his wife came to the Hosteria for Sunday dinner. He says no unusal number of mice - there are always lots of mice. We decided to camp at his Park Guard Station a couple of kms north on teh Rio Arrayanes, which connects Lago Verde with Lago Futalaufquen. The habitat is amixture of meadows with lots of rosa in them, some cows, coihue forest with