Bariloche q a.m. Owl pellet from near the lake c 1 and 1/2 miles. In the afternoon drove out to the Paso Paso Pampa and measured bamboo in a flat pure-bamboo area 18 yards short of the well on the trail that starts just before Paso Escorbido. Chacras ringing all around. No herb vegetation, one big clump about 40 ft. away. This crump (31) had no red leafless canes from last season but did have 3 new shoots. Numerous other shoots 2,3 or 4 ft tall with the sheathed tips dead. Other clumps nearby had red leafless shoots. One clump nearby had a shoot 28.1 mm diam at the base. From the presence of a well and rosa mosqueta, I guess this area must have been cleared at one time. No cables or signs reading. Nov. 8 Morning clear. Drove to Rio Villages to meet Abel & works Basti. After lunch drove down the Rio Mauro on the south to the Rio Forgei, then walked over the hanging bridge and down the valley for maybe a half or two, a dam is being planned for this valley. The Park is cut off from the rest of the river, but impossible to cross to visit the pobladores as we had before; Abel's research shows fewer people and fewer animals in the Park than years ago. The original Park settlers came from Chile about 1903. Most of the heads of households now are Germans. Nov. 9 Partly cloudy, sprinkles of rain. Went for a horseback ride with Arista and Huenchulafan up the valley to the Lampa de Torres, over the 1st ridge to the east, then back past Melián Rondondo and Pueblos.