E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia

The Vancouver Island Marmot is an endangered species of marmot, and one of the world's rarest mammals. It is found only in high mountain regions of south-central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, in open subalpine meadows, on south to west-facing treeless slopes at elevations of 1000 to 1400 m (Nagorsen 2005). In BC, it is restricted to mountains in the Nanaimo Lakes area, and Mount Washington, but its previous range was more widespread on Vancouver Island (Nagorsen 2005). It is the only marmot species in BC that naturally occurs on Vancouver Island (Wikipedia 2012).