Notes, Dean 2009 Journal Dec. 16 Corro Pelon area, Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico It continued to rain more lightly all last night and continued through the day. We walked into the forest above La Esperanza, but bromeliads had completely filled with water and we decided not to open more. We were walking down when the La Esperanza agents told us that the Comisariado of Comaltepec had arrived and wanted to talk to us. We spent an hour talking to him about what we should do to work there; turns out we need to write a proposal in advance. His contact info is: Ing. Norberto Uriel López Hernandez, Presidente del Comisariado de Bienes Comunales de Santiago Comaltepec Tel/Fax 01-951-546-6051 Cel: 044-951-1188054 [email protected], We continued on to a forest with huge, messy oaks and lots of rocks and logs, 1.1Km (by rd) N of Corro Pelon on MX175. We searched from 14:10-15:10 in a very cold light rain. I got 2 F. javerensis; F. [illegible] aureus and F. Urodens (macedougelli?), all under rocks, and Clyde and Pedro each got 1 F. macedougelli in logs. We continued up MX175 to Plan de las Flores and searched for ~10min, but it was dry (hadn't rained much here) so we drove back to Corro Pelon. While stopped at a landslide being cleared from the road, 6.8Km N of Llano de las Flores, I flipped 1 rock that had a Thorius lores under it. We searched in oak forest at the junction of MX175 and the road to San Pedro Mixte from 17:00-17:40 but I found only a Diplazium. After dark, we searched with lights in a very cold rain with lots of wind at the Corro Pelon mirador and below on rock walls, but found nothing. We then drove back to La Palora (11km from La Esperanza) and searched in a cold, light rain from 20:00-21:50. I saw