put 31 MS and 8 steel traps up in the quebrada among boulders and lots of durangillo, cola de píriti, etc. She also has 4 steel traps and 13 MS around camp. I have near camp 2 steel traps and 2 Shermanes (in the middle of big 6-foot-diam. cola de píriti clumps where it looks the guanaco pigs and deer there are active. Dec. 11 Night mostly overcast, and morning. My traps had nothing. Anita's around camp nothing, up in the quebrada she caught 1 Phyllotia, 2 tho longi, and 1 also paitho, Adrian caught 3 tho longi in the quebrada. Below camp and went to the 3 grids: nothing, near the mallin Anita caught one more baby tucu and an also paitho. Everything seems to be breeding. The locality called Puerto Blanco is the mallin south of the corner of INTA's Campo de las Fiestasolar and Yanquiquil. Summary: The steppe everywhere is green and full of flowers. Even the "heavily grazed" Yanquiquil property contains bunchgrasses with fresh seed heads. But maybe the severe winter killed off most of the sheep. Horses are still present. Saw no rhino and everybody says they died. Saw one rhino carcass. It is necessary to run the 3 grids for 2 nights (= 64 x 3 x 2 = 384 trap nights) and have not a trap touched (except a few rolled over by wind and horses). In the much bushier area on the Conallo grade, the denseness of the bushes may have sheltered considerable area from the snow mice. But we still have not caught a single Eligmodonta or