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Pearson
1987
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across the road in rocks bed 2 Elequidonta,
ante's live nothing x Tamp. warm, cloudless.
The results of 2 nights of 17 steel traps and
31 cube traps set in burrows originally made by
[illegible]
tucan that the burrows are occupied by tucan,
not vultures and not anything else (or they could
have been caught in the steel traps - or cube traps).
Report on cube traps: they have a lot of flaws
for this kind of trapping: water condenser inside
them, then soil gets stuck to the moisture and
hinders the fall of the door. Some dirt always
gets into the front door as you slide the trap into the
burrow.
Nov. 18 Soft early for photos of the Estancia Pinto more
area, then Konrad Bailey, administrator of Estancia San
Ramón drives us down the canyon of La Fragua,
beginning at Marful's gate and its railroad, past the
east side of the condor cliff, and north for about
6 kms to an abandoned puesto (but house in fairly
bad condition). Crossed several streams flowing into
the Fragua to our right. Road probably passable in
2-wheel-drive. Farther down, the canyon enters
Fiscal (Indian) land and enters the Gimmey. Saw a
couple of hare and quail on the way in. Lots of
pine plantings on various slopes, some up to 10 or
15 feet tall. The canyon is quite similar to the
Valle Encantado of the Rio Gimmey, with cipreses
and rock spires + cliffs.