Pearson 1987 Journal Oct. 19 Barloche. Drove up to the marked bamboo clump on Caro Otto, not much signs of spring yet. Teco activity in the meadow. The two marked clumps are undisturbed; no new shoots. A big flock of parakeets flew over twice while we were up there. Oct. 20. Drove to the La Veranda bamboo. The road crew is bulldozing huge wide shoulders along the road. They left our marked clump on the west side of the road—setting all by itself amid the bulldozing, all except one of the aluminum tags had been removed, but the data written on the stones had survived. We cut all the culms and recorded data. Two new shoots only 3 inches tall. Afterwards, while we were eating lunch, a pickup truck stopped and asked if we were the foresters people. The boss man said he had saved all the tags for us!! Then we recorded data from the clump east of the road, including 2 large orange flattened culms from one very dead new shoot. Almost all of the dead shoots had been parasitized. One other plant built in the wires had bloomed, including a yearling shoot, last summer I guess. This is the first bloomer that I remember seeing at this site. Lots of teco signs among the scattered fires and bamboo, Picked up one snailink owl pellet, which