Incident #1000284
Dallas, Polk Cty, Oregon
Nov 1959
Account
Hunting, found a set of 19 inch tracks in shallow old snow, 19 inches long, flat, 5 toes. Dog wouldn't follow them, although it would chase any other animal. (Maybe too old and/or cold)
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 08 1959
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1959
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Polk Cty
- Nearest Town
- Dallas
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 5000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2.5
- Latitude
- 44463-
- Longitude
- 123163
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Snow Condition
- shallow old
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- cold
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- wet
- Snow
- early snow
- Clarity
- overcast
- Lighting
- cloudy bright
Source
- Source
- Dale Newton intv. by John McCrimmon
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- MAY 70
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 19.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 1.00
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- hard shallow snow
Witness
- Interviewer
- John McCrimmon
- Interview date
- MAY 14 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Track witnesses
- 1