Incident #1000376
Paskenta, Tehama Cty, California
1960's
Account
John Crawford told Jim McClarin that he and his father, Gilbert Crawford, Oakland had seen huge tracks in Thomas Creek gorge "below Davies place" half a dozen times between 1959 and 1969, in summer, while they were horseback riding or fishing. The tracks were sometimes in the stream bed sometimes on the sides of the valley.
When
- Year
- 1960's
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tehama Cty
- Nearest Town
- Paskenta
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 8
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1.2
- Latitude
- 3951--
- Longitude
- 12250--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- stream
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- John Crawford intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUN 1970
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 42
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Relation to Water
- near water
- Remarks
- Trasck size and stride average of estimates. Longest set of tracks covered about half a mile.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUN 24 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- fishing, shore, horseback
- Track witnesses
- 2