Incident #1000933
Olympic National Forest, Washington
Dec 1984
Account
Steve Sampson, bow hunting in Olympic National Forest, saw and photographed tracks 16 by 7 inches with a 34-inch stride. He got two more people to look at them and said two other hunters found similar tracks in the same area the same day.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1984
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Olympic National Forest
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- forest
Source
- Source
- Associated Press story, about Dec 1985
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1985
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- JAN 1986
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 34
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Cliff Crook
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Track witnesses
- 3