Results/Conclusions The highest elevation for llareta was 5,250 meters. Llareta is only harvested in the dry season; thus, we saw no active harvesting, though there was some evidence of previous harvesting. We reevaluated 9 plants that were permanently tagged in 1999 to determine A. compacta growth rate to be 0.11 cm yr-1. We measured 406 A. compacta plants, and on average, 100 meter transects contained about 13 +/- 3 plants. Sizes of plants ranged from 1 cm2, for a plant 1 cm by 1 cm up to 515,025 cm2 for a plant 545 cm by 945 cm. We found no correlation with amount of A. compacta encountered in a transect and elevation via simple linear regression (F = 2.240, p = 0.136), though mean area of all plants in the transect did increase with elevation (F = 9.582, p =0.002). A histogram of A. compacta also showed that young size classes (< 20 cm) were most abundant and older size classes were evenly distributed. Our work indicates that conservation efforts with A. compacta are working.