Incident #1000716
Welches, Clackamus Cty, Oregon
Feb 1995
Account
Frank Kaneaster Jr., investigated a report on a farm at Welches, and saw tracks 15" x 7", five toes, veryu plain, in the mud. Made at least two casts. A missing goat was found 100 yards away in a thicket of brush with udder, liver and heart missing. Next night it was draped over a horizental limb of an alder, just a few feet in the air, where it remained undisturbed. A 10-foot fence was torn down.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 03 1995
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1995
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Clackamus Cty
- Nearest Town
- Welches
- Distance from Town
- 1
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 17
- Latitude
- 4519--
- Longitude
- 12257--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- wet
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Track Record, report by Frank Kaneaster Jr., Colto
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- FEB 1995
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- AUG 1995
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 54
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Trackmaker attracted by
- livestock
- Remarks
- A goat was missing, found 100 yards away with udder, liver and heart missing. Next day moved 200 feet on droped over low branch.
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- several