Roots, Dear 2008 Journal Laguna Chamula microwave station, between Comitán and San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) March 23 Too dry at times for the salamanders. We then drove east from the highway towards Platicas where good-looking forest with no Bromeliads turned into fields and Zapatista villages. We drove past an area with a few Bromeliads and then the habitat turned to scrubby forest without a big tree in sight. We drove a couple of guys to San Luis, at the end of the road, and then went back about halfway. We stopped in an area with a few trees and opened about 15 Bromeliads for ~30 min, about 10.5 km (by road) from MX 190 (the highway to San Cristóbal). We found nothing, but could see some mountains to the north of the road which seemed forested. We drove on to Justita and met Antonio and Flora at the Best Western, where we stayed. 16,49516°N, 92,22825°W [WGS84], Elevation: 2,272m elev. March 24 El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico We left Justita at 8:45 after hitting the breakfast buffet and drove to Jaltenango, in the dry central depression of Chiapas. We then drove west uphill towards Santa Rita and past a large abandoned coffee finca, Finca do Busay, to the end of the road. Four mules were waiting for us and we let them carry our bags as we walked uphill towards the field station at El Triunfo in the Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo. We started in coffee fields and then went through pine and liquidambar forest. The forest was in great condition above the coffee tree