Furry Mountain Critters Doomed

First we find out that Pikas are doomed from global warming. Now the Marmots are doomed from global cooling.

Heavy snowpack, late spring could take toll on marmots
BY SANDRA MCCULLOCH, TIMES COLONIST MAY 6, 2011
Hundreds of Vancouver Island marmots are awakening from their winter hibernation to find their burrows – and the grass that is their sustenance – covered by deep snow.

“There is a tremendous amount of snow,” said Viki Jackson, executive director of the Marmot Recovery Foundation.

http://www.timescolonist.com/

Our alpine regions are suffering from too warm and too cold. Too much snow and too little snow. The climate misery never ends.

h/t to GregW

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Once a year all the Marmots in Tabernash (Colorado) get together and sing. They call it the ______ _________ Choir.