Currently, an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 Olympic marmots remain. Between 1990 and 2006, the population saw a sharp decline. In some cases, entire colonies disappeared as trees encroached on their ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Olympic marmots under the Endangered Species Act. The rare marmots are found only ...

But those shrieks and happier chirps and whining sounds have been sounding off less and less in the past two decades. In ...

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 ...