Pearson - 1998 20 trophic level is provided by the possums, which are very abundant. All well documented, in a quite remote place. John's fax is 64-6-877-5680. The work is not published yet, but they have a page: http://www.landcare.cri.nz/science/biodiversity/projects/kiwi/ Kim King "has done most of the work". It seems to emanate from the Department of Conservation (DoC). December 13- Sunny, warm. Drove down the Limay Valley, where the boys went swiming. December 14- Bariloche. Clear, sunny. Paid bills and talked with Parques. Ramilo and Chehebar did not know of any turtles around here. They got out Cei's book and found several, one of which at least lives farther down the Rio Negro. They decided that the specimen from Lago Gutierrez must be an escaped pet, but none of us really has any clue to identification. Lunch with John and Eileen. They are moving across the river to San Ramon, and waiting to get horses to move up higher in the Cuyin Manzano. John says that after sunset but well before dark the Reithrodons come out and are running every which way. They seem to use tuco burrows, but not neccesarily ones currently occupied by tucons. Then drove Duncan and Bruce up to the top of Cerro Otto for them to camp overnight. It was beginning to cloud up at sunset. Patricia Fierro came by, back from her trip guiding a Stanford group down the Chilean coast to Torres del Paine etc. Wind 80 mph at Torres while she was there. December 15- Overcast! December 16- Bariloche. Clear, warm. Duncan and Bruce left on the bus to B.A. Cleaned out junk in the apartment. December 31- A specimen of Broom from the road to Llao Llao was identified by as