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Photo, Dear
2012
Journal
Finca Magnolia Miramar, Volcan Tacanar, Dept. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Jan. 11
I arrived in Guatemala City the morning of Jan 10 w/ Carla Ciceri, Olga
Sanchez, and Elise Freitas. Met up w/ Ted Paperfuse (arrived day before),
Carlos Nasquez + Sergio Perez. Spent time packing at museum; I was
sick + didn't help much. Stefanie Ortega joined us and we left town,
picking up Jose Alejandro Nicole Paul on the way. Took us forever to leave
the city + encountered a major traffic jam, got to our destination,
a large coffee finca below the forest on Volcan Tacanar, around
10:30. Nite setup - 3 bedrooms + lots of space to work. This morning, took
forever to get organized. Three guides went w/ us to the forest. Drove 40 min
uphill + parked in cafetal, then walked ~25 min through cafetal and
planted pine forest. Everyone but me + other students (plus our guide) took
another trail and we waited ~30 min for them to rejoin us. Bird +
mammal teams decided the forest was too far and decided to go to a
closer forest on another finca. Carlos, Ted, and I left then and walked
uphill, quickly entering some secondary forest and then some decent
(although disturbed) primary broadleaf forest w/ lots of learners.
Tree diversity of trees seemed low, or at least many trees looked very similar.
Forest was fairly open, and leaf litter was quite dry. Started looking
at 11:40 and stopped at 16:00. I looked in a number of logs but found
nothing; even in logs it wasn't too wet. We found 5 Prangster of
two species (C[illegible] + other one), 5 were out + 1 was under a piece
of wood. We also got 2 Andis + I saw a third that escaped into a tree.
We opened 30-40 small to medium-sized bromeliads + got 5 Brothersona
engelhardtii, two of which were in the same bromeliad. Bromeliads had
some water in them but seemed good; was surprised to not see more