Forest Service employees see big footprints near Lake Isabella witnessed in Kern County, California

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I am a long term seasonal with the US Forest Service. I do know the different tracks the wildlife leaves behind. What I and a co-worker saw was not a typical wildlife track. On this day, we decided to go to the Piute Mountain to cover illegal OHV trails. As the day was going we covered 5 illegal trails around the Landers meadow area then decided to head for the Weldon and Woolstaff meadow area. As we were heading towards the Weldon Meadow area a rancher stopped us to ask if we saw some of his cattle. Are reply was "No, if we see them we'll let you know." Never found them. At Weldon meadow we stopped for lunch and this was are next area to work. During lunch, the co-worker went to do a little exploring. After about 10 minutes the co-worker yelled to me to come and see and ID some wildlife tracks. These were not wildlife tracks. We saw what looked something like a human foot track but, it was way to big with a slight distortion in the toes. The tracks measured about 16 inches long and...