But the Olympic marmot's distinction as an endemic species to Washington state also comes with a heightened responsibility to protect them. And according to the National Park Service, Olympic ...

Students at Seattle's Wedgwood Elementary School have been lobbying lawmakers through e-mails and visits to the state Capitol on behalf of the native Olympic marmot, which they think should be ...

Washington state is known for its variety of flora and fauna. But when it comes to public adoration, it seems like one local animal has been a little jilted - the Olympic marmot. It's ironic ...

It’s cute, it’s friendly, it greets others of its kind by touching noses and smelling cheeks. It likes to sunbathe on rocks and hang out in the summer along Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National ...

ONE WEEK FROM today, the Port Angeles Lefties will take the Civic Field diamond for their season opener attired in caps and jerseys featuring a marmot mascot logo, an ode to one of the North Olympic ...

Olympic marmots can spend up to eight months a year hibernating, emerging when the weather warms to forage for food, fatten up, and otherwise go about their business. If you’ve traveled in the ...

Olympic marmots have the smallest range and population of any marmot species in the United States. Just 2,000 to 4,000 of the marmots are thought to be alive today. A severe population decline was ...

Olympic marmots hibernate from September to May. During the morning and afternoon on summer days they feed and spend time sunbathing on rocks. In the evening, they return to their burrow.

Suzanne Cox Griffin assumed Olympic marmot populations were healthy. ... Marmot researcher David P. Barash estimated in the 1960s that there might be about two thousand, but it’s hard to know precise ...

She’s in her third summer of studying Olympic marmots, a species found only in the Olympic Mountains. “I began looking at how the landscape affects the ability of the marmot to move to ...

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news with rising concerns about economic uncertainty, constitutional crisis and the ever-present threat of climate change rearing their ugly heads to frightening ...

Olympic marmots can spend up to eight months a year hibernating, emerging when the weather warms to forage for food, fatten up, and otherwise go about their business. If you’ve traveled in the ...