The Olympic marmot, nicknamed the ‘whistle pig,’ is often heard before it is seen in alpine meadows. "They’re the fluffy denizens of these beautiful alpine meadows," said Noah Greenwald from ...

But those shrieks and happier chirps and whining sounds have been sounding off less and less in the past two decades. In North Cascades National Park and nearby alpine forests, hoary marmot ...

The rare marmots are found only on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. “These giant, fluffy denizens of alpine meadows are icons of the Pacific Northwest, but if we don’t protect them, they ...