Incident #1000345
Hoopa, Humboldt, California
Aug 1961
Account
Bob Wahlund was returning to work for the first time after firefighting at Red Cap. At worksite off Forest Service Rd. 10N02 near the South Fork of Mill Creek, there were 16-inch tracks going around a yarder and on up the road. He only saw the tracks around the yarder.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 27 1961
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1961
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt
- Nearest Town
- Hoopa
- Direction from Town
- East Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 8
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 4107--
- Longitude
- 12331--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty machine
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- West
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- spotty
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Variety
- rhododendron
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Bob Wahlund intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Average Depth
- 2.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 40
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 25
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust
- Remarks
- Track depth varied from a half inch to four inches.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 18 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- several
- Other report by this witness
- 5