Incident #1000476
Hoopa, Humboldt Cty, California
Aug 1962
Account
Newspaper has photo of a track that may be the "15-inch" from Bluff Creek, but with poor photocopy cannot be sure, or read tape measure. Found by Bill Dunn, Blue Lake, and photographed a week later by Jack Matthews, Blue Lake, on a logging road near the west boundary of the Hoopa Indian Reservation. Stride varied from 51 to 57 inches. (Presume tracks found when crew went to work on Monday, Matthews brought camera to work the following week.)
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 20 1962
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1962
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hoopa
- Direction from Town
- West
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 410---
- Longitude
- 1233---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Humboldt Times, Eureka, Cal., Sep 4, 1962.
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1962
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Witness
- Observer Was
- logging
- Track witnesses
- several