Pearson - 1997 20 be spectacularly large. 3 December- Bariloche. Christie is home from the States. The Barnoskys may not be coming this season to Bariloche. Chehebar at Parques is going to circulate the Parkguards for info on mouse numbers or corpses in their areas. Then waiting in incredible lines for new license plates for the car. One office was so packed with people waiting that the door, which opened inward, wouldnt open unless everybody squnched at the same time. Now to the bank to pay a fine, then back to the motor office at the Escuela de Policia for who- knows-what. Max-min for the past 5 days 42-62; almost all cloudy. 4 December- All morning chasing down a new license plate for the car. $170 so far and 4 different offices. I think all the paper work is done; now "come back in about a week". In the afternoon went up Cerro Otto to the two marked bamboo clumps. The lower one has a lot of dead culms in it, no new shoots. The upper one has new shots up to 8 inches tall. The lengas are well- leafed-out but no blossoms. Some earth cores. Youg white pines are growing very fast, two feet or more between whorls of branches. Some firs also growing fast. Day pretty much overcast, no rain. 5 December- Bariloche. Cloudy all day, some drizzle. Drove to La Veranada to our two bamboo plants. Scotch broom on the way there is in full bloom, the lupine not quite full bloom yet, the rosa notblooming at all. The meadow at our campsite has almost no dandelions, the turf is rough, maybe wild pigs in the past? The closest clump E3 is very vigorous, lots of yearling culms and many new shoots just emerging. E2 in the woods is not doing much. It had a lot of dead culms on one side, and it turns out that they have been bitten off at the bottom by a tuco. The tuco obviously cut them, then eaten the bottom of the culm right down to the rhizome. Two of the eaten culms were tagged old ones "born" in the 1985-1986 season. There were numerous earth cores o out in the meadowy areas, some of them too small for tuco, probably Chelemys. The incisor marks on the bamboo, however, were too