Still, researchers are watching for potential declines as marmot habitat continues to disappear. “Climate change as a whole is definitely bad news for marmots,” Whiles said. “But I don’t know.

Groundhogs are usually the most common marmots to interact with humans because their range and preferred habitat coincide ...

For her dissertation at the University of Montana in the early 2000s, she initially set out to study how climate change could fragment marmots’ alpine habitat and ability to establish new colonies in ...

Yellow-bellied marmots are causing a stir once again in the Gate City after residents report invasive holes and damage to ...

"The most encouraging thing about Olympic marmots is almost all of their habitat is protected within the Olympic National Park," Bradley said. "You don't have to worry about Olympic marmot habitat ...

Olympic marmots are a unique species of large, ground-dwelling squirrels that live in alpine and subalpine meadows and rocky slopes, with most of their habitat falling within the Olympic National Park ...

One of my favorite things about hiking near the top of mountains is the transition between the alpine and subalpine communities. In this area, I am prepared to hear “eeps” and “peeps” and “sweaks” ...