YEAR: 1998

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: August

DATE: 12

STATE: California

COUNTY: Tulare County

LOCATION DETAILS: Just south of Three Rivers, California, about 3 miles up the South Fork Road. This is in Tulare County.

OBSERVED: I thought a saw a bear in the middle of the road; then it stood up and ran on two feet and jumped a nearby barbed-wire fence and kept running into the woods until it was gone.

OTHER WITNESSES: Driving.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: August 12 about 8.30 a.m. while I was driving up the road.

ENVIRONMENT: Very woodsy -- mostly sycamore and live oak, about 100 ft. away from a ponderosa pine that grows near the road; near the south fork of the Kaweah River about 500 ft. before the silver bridge.