Incident #1001011
Copper, Jackson Cty, Oregon
Aug 1969
Account
Perry (Slim) Lovell, an elderly prospector living in a cabin near Copper, found 18-inch tracks near his garden and on nearby sandy bottom land, in the Applegate River valley. The tracks were flat-footed, with distinct toe marks and a stride of six feet. Jim Devault, a neighbor, and two women also saw them.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 30 1969
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Jackson Cty
- Nearest Town
- Copper
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4201--
- Longitude
- 12308--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Near or/at
- garden
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Substratum
- fine material
Source
- Source
- Medford Mail Tribune, Maude Ziegler article quotin
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- SEP 8 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 72
- Track Condition
- good
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Relation to Water
- near water
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Maude Ziegler, probably
- Interview date
- SEPT 1969
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Track witnesses
- 4