Saving the Vancouver Island Marmot

[Catherine]

I have seen the marmots when I was on Vancouver island. One of the things that has endangered them is logging.
Sadly they clear cut a lot of areas and destroyed the marmot habitat. Places where they cut all the trees off a mountain slope, it ended up eroding and even though they planted trees they did not restore the land to its previous condition. 

Happily protestors blocked the logging and prevented more clear cutting in the area. However for the marmots it was hard. They couldn't adapt to the changes in the landscape. It has taken a lot of work to save the marmots and it took a lot of work to stop habitat destruction. Saving the land was about much more than saving the marmots, but the marmots were part of the big picture. If protestors hadn't fought to stop the logging of the area, the marmots might not have survived.