Habitat Family Food Problems Solutions Bibliography Description Written and illustrated by: Cam C. and Layne R.

The Vancouver Island marmot is about the size of a woodchuck. It has short legs and sharp claws.. The Vancouver Island marmot has a brown coat with a white muzzle and a white breast. It grows to be about 7-16 pounds and about 70 meters long. It has large nostrils and a flattened nose. The Vancouver Island marmot has small eyes, a bushy tail and small round ears.

The Vancouver Island marmot lives about 1000 meters in elevation. It likes steep slopes and open meadows. The Vancouver Island marmot likes a big bolder at the entrance of their burrow for sunning and a look out tower. The look out tower is for coming predators.

The Vancouver Island marmot has about 11 pups its entire life time! They have 3-5 pups every 2 nd year and they are born in July. The babies are called pups and gestures for about one month.

The Vancouver Island marmot has a strict diet of vegetation. Like grasses, herbs and special flower parts of alpine plants.

The biggest factor affecting the marmot population is clear cut logging. The reason for this is the marmots live in meadows. The Vancouver Island marmot comes into these fake meadows but then the trees grow back. That make it easier for the enemies to sneak up on them.

People have been pulling the Vancouver Island marmot out of the wild until there are more of them. They are protected from capture, harassment, trade and killing. People decided to start protecting the Vancouver Island marmot in 1994 when they realized how low the population was getting. People are protecting by feed them, breed them and look after them.