Pearson-1992 4 floating on water. November 3- Bariloche. Temp 40, partly cloudy. Barometer rising at last. Interviewed by Abel Basti for an article on bamboo for La Manana del Sur. At 4 pm drove to La Veranada to check our bamboo clumps. Only a few surviving yearling shoots, but otherwise the same. The clamp in the road right-of-way that we cut down years ago is still alive, but hardly thriving. Then we walked up into the lenga forest on the old trail. The nire trees there are bigger than east of the road. The bamboo becomes bigger and taller before you come to the lenga trees. There was almost no snow left east of the road, but much more right where the bamboo becomes bigger. More shade? The lenga leaves are coming out, but most of the nire are still pretty bare. Some of the bent-over bamboo culms had a layer of snow on them with a layer of lenga leaves on top of that, which seems to say that there was early snow last fall before the lenga leaves had fallen. Evening clear. November 4- Bariloche. Temperature 38, clear, not windy. Today's paper says that the very low temperatures, strong winds, and the inclement weather during the second half of October, the season of birth, may have reduced the sheep/wool crop, partly through increased fox predation. Quotes Ramon Marful, whose Estancia, where we did the Reithrodon study, runs 3500 sheep on 8000 ha. It also quotes Adolfo Sarmiento at INTA who said that he had heard of losses of sheep near Pilcaniyeu, Cerro Alto, Las Bayas, Coquelen, and south of Comallo. Adrian Monjeau came by with his team of three students: Nadia Guthman, Karin Heinemann, and Mariana Losada. They have a graph of the longevity of about 50? banded Akodon xanthorhinus. The oldest was about 10 months. Visited Michael Christie's office. Only Miguel Gross was there. Gallopin is moving to Cali, Colombia. November 5- Bariloche. Morning 55, clear, not windy. Drove to the rocky cliff overlooking Estancia Tehuel Malal and hunted for owl pellets. I think an increase of rosa mosqueta and of Colletia since last visit several years ago. Found two or three liters of pellets and saw one barn owl in a crevice in the cliff. No viscachas. A dead elk and numerous elk droppings. Young maiten trees are completely stripped of leaves and twigs. Sheep, black Angus, horses, and hares grazing on the flats down below. On the way back to Bariloche in the afternoon, 50 or more hectares of grassy/bushy steppe was burning furiously between the airport and the Lake (Estancia Condor). Yesterday another freeze (-3C) hit Neuquen and