Incident #1000805
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
Jun 1970
Account
Combining two vague reports, Robert Morgan team found tracks two days apart, one set in creek where it flows into a small lake, and crossing the creek, the other on an embankment by a logging trail south of the lake. Second set 16-inches, 10 tracks, photo not too good.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Skamania Cty
- Nearest Town
- Cougar
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Population of Town
- 100
- Latitude
- 461---
- Longitude
- 1221---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- high bank
- Near or/at
- trail
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- stream
- Nearby Water
- creek, lake
- Distance to Water
- contact
Source
- Source
- National Wildlife, Oct-Nov 1970
- Source Type
- magazine
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Number of Tracks
- 10
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Relation to Water
- in then out
- Remarks
- Water reference is to second set of tracks that crossed stream.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 31 to 40