Stein, BR 1988 11 Aug. been cleared + planted. Nice primarily, but also corn. We arrive in Mengla + are told it would be an hour until lunch so we get a "sightseeing tour" tour to kill time. Lots of PLA here as we are near the border road. After lunch it is just 19 km. North from town (the only big road heading north out of town) to the site of the proposed Man-in-the-Biosphere Smithsonian Field Station. This is 1° forest. The tallest trees we have seen in China. The Reserve has been divided into 2 sections, one north, one south of the road. The narrow neck of road and the land on either side of it is not part of the Reserve and hence cultivated. So we finally arrive, the weather is glorious, and we are told we have 50 min. + then we head back! We could not walk too far up the road — too dangerous. Not too far into the forest — "might get lost." That's when Art really began to lose it. (I, personally, would have thrown a jacket 2 days ago, and nearly did). We stopped on the way back to check the 2nd bat net which had been up 24 hr!