YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOT

Marmots are popularly known in the West as "whistle-pigs." They burrow and den among rocks in the high country and could easily hail a cab with their sharp whistles.

ENJOYING HIS FRONT YARD ON COTTONWOOD PASS

A marmot shows off his front yard. This critter lives on Cottonwood Pass near the Great Divide between the Arkansas Valley and Taylor Park (headwaters of the Gunnison).