Incident #1001059
Medford, Jackson Cty, Oregon
Apr 1976
Account
Three women picking wildflowers and mushrooms near Butte Falls found six tracks 12 inches long, wider than human, with bulbous toes, about 100 yards from a gravel road. Roy Lack of North American Wildlife Research (Ron Olson) made a cast. Depth was about a half inch, stride 50 to 60 inches. Lack is quoted as saying that he had also been shown 19-inch tracks in two different locations by two Medford men. Apparently one set of each size was in the Clark Creek drainage six miles North of Butte Falls, and one of each in the woods close to Butte Falls.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 13 1976
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Jackson Cty
- Nearest Town
- Medford
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 22
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 423---
- Longitude
- 1223---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill, plateau
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
Source
- Source
- Medford, Oregon, Mail-Tribune, quoting Roy Lack (R
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- APR 22, 1976
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- APR 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints 1
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 12.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Heel Width
- 4.0
- Average Depth
- 0.50
- Stride in Inches Average
- 55
- Longest
- 60
- Shortest
- 50
- Number of Tracks
- 6
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Size of Toes
- toes all about the same
- Longest Toe
- other
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Foot Shape
- splay-toed
- Remarks
- Photo of cast appears to show only four toes, in a curve with the third toe projecting slightly the farthest. There could possibly be a small fifth toe.
Footprints 2
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 19.0
- Remarks
- This entry is just to record Roy Lack's reference to 19-inch tracks in the Butte Falls area.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Allen Hallmark, Medford Mail-Tribune
- Interview date
- APR 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- several