Pearson-1989 23 Kirsh and Dickerman found the dead Lestodelphys exactly like the cliff at 9 km W Clemente Onelli where I camped. He collected pellets there also (last year). Patricia Fierro will be local leader of a Smithsonian group next Friday, led by Susan Martin. Susana Antolache came by in the evening. She is interested in bamboo, especially impact of harvesting, commercialization, etc. I am not sure of her connection with the University or??She had a Veblen reprint from Bosque 1979 (Universidad Austral in Valdivia) that contained regressions for calculating volume of culms from diameters 1m above ground. She also brought Vol. 1 No. 2 of "Dendron: Informacion Forestal Andino-Patagonico". It is "environmental" with a silviculture slant. November 11 - Met Anita at airport, then to Llao Llao to measure leaves on L6 again. Clear, mild temp. Araucarian pigeon at Llao Llao; Scotch broom in full boom, and Notro (Embothrium). November 12 - Bariloche. Warm, clear, not windy. Julietta von Thuringen?? came by with 2-yr-old child. She is working on foxes still, and plans to extend her studies farther east. Says the trappers have recently begun to sell at least some of their fox furs through an official auction. Last year 9000 with the auction in Bariloche; this year 5000 in the auction, which was held in Viedma. But an unknown number trade through other channels. She says that a lot of the trappers have little 200-ha chacras on fiscal land (sort of government land held /for indians) and they probably trap all around and don't trust the government, so she is expecting to encounter a lot of cover-up. INTA gets 1.5 % of the the government tax receipts on the furs. John Jackson apparently is not coming back toi Argentina, Javier Bellati has his job, at least for the moment until there can be a concurso. Jorge Amaya is a higher-up. Rabinovitche's SPAIDBR program funds have been cut considerably by CONICET. She is going to do the annual mouse census at Campo Anexo next week and promises to tell me the results. November 13 - Bariloche. Sunny and mild. Javier Bellati came by, reported on things at INTA. He is still working on foxes, going to expand eastward, and also hopes to expand into raptorss such as Gerrhonoetes at Estancia El Condor. He says that at Los Menucos there has not been a drop of rain since a year ago September. El Condor not so bad off. Says that the Zorro Bayo (according to Crespo) is just a color phase of the Zorro Colorado, but it has a reputation of being more ferocious. Also reports that occasional red foxes show up at Campo Anexo of INTA. Then Thomas Beloch came by. He is hippy German, has lived herabouts for 10 years, and is editor of the silviculture journal "Dendron". It is supported by a German group. Their policy seems to be to promote sustained yield of the native trees rather than cultivation of pines, firs, etc. They are concerned especially about the cipres (Austrocedrus) which seems to bear the brunt of the pine effort, and also the cipres in moister habitats is suffering from a mysterious fatal disease. November 14 - Bariloche. Cold, clear, windy. Worked on bamboo. The bamboo girl,