Incident #1000921
Packwood, Lewis Cty, Washington
Jul 1980
Account
Barb Taubman, a Forest Service back-country guard, photographed an 18 by 8-inch track found in a low wet spot on a trail into the Goat Rocks Wilderness. The trail had been closed until four days earlier, because of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 31 1980
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Lewis Cty
- Nearest Town
- Packwood
- Direction from Town
- South
- Population of Town
- 100
- Latitude
- 462---
- Longitude
- 1213---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Seattle, Wash., Post-Intelligencer, quoting Barb T
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- SEP 10 1980
- Source reliability
- 1
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1981
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 8.0
- Number of Tracks
- 1
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Jon Beckjord
- Interview date
- 1980
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- 1