Pearson - 1998 9 Matuz, the old caetaker, died about a month ago. Another middle-aged gent was in charge. He gave me 4 Sherman traps that had been found after our last visit. He had them set in the barn--a marvelous old galpon that Matuz had buillt of cipres trunks (vertical), shingles split from cipres, etc. Both Willinkk and this gent say no mice. The nires are well leafed out. A couple of cows wandering around. Camped at our same spot along the river near the soccer field. A pair of geese in the meadow. Anita put out 56 traps and I put out 50, half Shermans half MS. Foud a Sherman and a MS while I was setting. The Sherman had a dried Oligo corpse in it. Evenng clear, not windy. November 12-- The caretaker said yesterday that there is no Rosa here because it is a plague and theycut it out. I found two clumps and cut them with machete. My MS traps held one wren, 3 sprung empty. My Shermans held 1 Oligo, 2 Abro longi, and 3 Abro oliv. Anita had one longi in a MS and one in a Sherman. Total score in 106 traps: I oligo, 4 longi, and 3 oliv. One of the olives escaped. Both of our trap lines were repeats of lines run last spring and last autumn. First half of the night was crystal clear; second half partly cloudy. Light dew in the morning. Sunny morning. Jacklighting for about 100m out toward the meadow lat night saw nothing. Dissected mice in the morning. Everybody breeding. Discarded the followwing two Abro olivaceus: Male 180x78x23x26.5g. no scars on tail, no fat, testis 11mm, sv 14, liver ok, lungs ok. Male not saved 183x85x22x33g. 2 scars on tail, no fat, testis 11, sv 16, lliver ok, lungs ok. While picking up my trapline, I found one MS and two Shermans, both Shermans with dried corpse of a nouse in it, one was an Oigo, other not identified. At 3:30 p.m. put out new traplines up the road, Some traps at the water-flow measuring station and some a few hundred yards farther west in nire/bamboo/Berberis, Anita put a total of 50, half and half, and I put out two lines; the second line hd 44 traps, half and half, alternating Shermans and MS. My first line had ?? traps. A few sprinkles while we were setting, but day mostly sunny and warm. November 13- Lago Espejo Chico. Night partly cloudy. Saw no animals while jacklighting briefly. Heard no owls. Our 15 Shermans and 15 MS at the gate in coihue/bamboo logs forest caught 2 Ako longi in Museum specials and 3 Ako longis in Shermans. This line is not really at the gate but at the Aforo on the river, where they measure stream flow. My other line in nire/bamboo/berberis/chaura had 22 MS and 22 SHermans and