Conservationists are advocating for the Olympic marmot, a beloved species found only in Washington state, to be added to the endangered species list. The Center for Biological Diversity attributes ...

said in one study coyotes accounted for 85% of all documented marmot predation. Historically, coyotes aren’t known to have roamed the higher elevations of the Olympics. If wolves – hunted to ...

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

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 ...

The Paralympic mascot and the Olympic mascots Quatchi and Miga are accompanied by a sidekick: Mukmuk, the marmot. Mukmuk’s name is derived from “muckamuck” which means “food” in Squamish, as it loves ...