Leader of Fat Marmot Week fights the budget cut era: ‘we’re going to be laughing our way down as the Titanic sinks’

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Marmot researchers in Gothic, Colorado, affectionately call themselves “marmoteers.” Funding cuts have already wiped out a third of the grad students.

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Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

Last winter was tough for marmots living high in the Colorado mountains, where researchers say two-thirds of one population died while hibernating because of insufficient snow cover.

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