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.

The ground hog (in this case, a hoary marmot) may not chuck much wood, but it can scarf down a tenth of its weight in greens each day. Learn more ground hog facts, including history of the ground ...

Landscape changes, often linked to trees encroaching on their preferred open spaces, on Vancouver Island throughout the 20th century fragmented the marmots’ mountain habitat, leaving populations ...

"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 ...

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 ...

They are called marmots; these are ground squirrels living ... which have been seen mostly above 14,000 feet above sea level and their habitat tends to lie between the upper limits of trees ...

If your car doesn’t start, you might have a marmot infestation ... and officers quickly whisked him away, to his natural habitat, “before he could reoffend.” The good news/bad news of ...

but years after the marmots moved into what resembled great habitat, the trees would grow back and provide the cover that predators needed to slaughter them. They also tweaked their efforts to ...

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 ...