Pearson - 1991 Picked up traps at about 2 p.m. One tuco, no mice. Will send the tuco skull to Maria Rosi. Adam Hajduk came by in the evening with still more bones from Isla Victoria. December 4.-Windy drizzly. Went to Llao Llao in p.m. and checked bamboo, then drove back the road toward the picnic areas on Lgo Moreno. The road was blocked by two big treefalls, Set traps in bamboo places for Abrothrix for Castro-Vazquez. Found two large clumps of bamboo in full flower, and one death clump that flowered last year. No seedlings around it. Inspected one of the two flowering clumps and saw no new shoots, but a few dead shoots probably from last year. I set 30 Shermans and 2 steel traps. Three of the Shermans and the two steel traps were at the base of the flowering column of bamboo. Anita set 18 Shermans along the trail. Hung a sheet from a leaning bamboo culm and set the gas lantern at the bottom of it. Weather cool, but drizzle over. No insects of any sort came to the light, which burned for an hour or two after dusk, and for another 15 minutes in the middle of the night. December 5.- Llao Llao Peninsula. Morning cool, mostly cloudy. My traps held 3 Oryzomys and 3 Abrothrix. One of the Oryzomys was under the flowering column of bamboo. Anita's traps held 3 Abrothrix. Back to Bariloche at 9:30 a.m. December 6.- Gave talk at the meeting of SNAP (Sociedad Naturalista Andino- Patagónica): "La Vida Secreta de Lauchas de Campo). Almost all amateurs in the audience; nobody from Parques or INTA or University except Rapoport from Bcoton. December 7.- Drizzly. Looked for fresh tucos up above the university butnothing good. December 8.- Radio interview in the morning with Abel Basti and Carlos Romero. Then the Anglo-Argentine asado in the afternoon. Met the Administrador of Estancia Fortin Chacabuco. Last year or year before they harvested 130 red deer (by New Zealander's helicopter). The present administrator thinks that they could probably harvest 300 per year without endangering the population. Peter Sympson was in New Zealand learning how to artificially inseminate red deer and to bring back some semen. Lawrence Sympson is also looking into artificial insemination to increase the size of the local deer. Werner Flueck says they are wasting their time because the problem is malnutrition, not genetics. A Chilean couple from Frutillar, Chile, said that their quilla bamboo died last year, but they didn't seem to know whether it had bloomed. They are landscape architects and take care of a garden for Lever Brothers at Puyehue, but did not seem to be aware of the bloom going on there. December 9.- Bariloche. Slight drizzle. Drove to south end of Lago Guillelmo and set tuco traps, then up to La Veranada, through light hail, to the