cypress next door to blow, although irregular in outline, averaged about 28" diam., and was 65 yrs old. an aphid ("pulgor") is attacking many kinds of conifers around town, and cypresses. Dec 4 Bariloche. Sunny, cool, very windy. Visited Adrian Mariani at INTA. Then Felipe + Rosa Vivero dropped in, then Michael Christie and Swann Brewer. Dec 5 Left at 11:30 for Confluencia. Lots of squirrels here but forgot to count. Sunny windy. The Aleria Reservoir has now filled the Valle Encantado, dead cypresses along the margin. In this survey dedicated to cypress, I am impressed by the abundance of cypress in the Confluencial Rio Trafal area, and lots of reproduction. Cypress goes all the way to the ridge on both sides of the lower Trafal, in spite of some high valleys full of lenga. There are at least 3 terminal moraines as you go up the Trafal Valley. We drove in to look at the the higher one, the one that now holds Sayo Defal, to compare our airphoto taken last year. You drive into the road toward the Primavera to the Fifth Holeberg but turn left on a dirt road before the holeberg. The trees growing on the terminal moraine that look small and scattered in the photo both quite dense and large (from a distance) on the ground.