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Marmot Day is an Alaskan holiday established to celebrate marmots and Alaskan culture. Although local festivals have been part and parcel of frontier life for decades, Marmot Day became an official holiday on April 18, 2009, when the 26th Alaska State Legislature officially passed Senate Bill 58. [ 1 ]
Marmot Day is a relatively new Alaskan holiday with parallels to Groundhog Day. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Sarah Palin signed a bill in 2009 to officially make every February 2 Marmot Day. [ 26 ] The bill, introduced by Senator Linda Menard , said, "It made sense for the marmot to become Alaska's version of Punxsutawney Phil , the Pennsylvania groundhog ...
Beginning in 2010, Alaska celebrates February 2 as "Marmot Day", a holiday intended to observe the prevalence of marmots in that state and take the place of Groundhog Day. [ 22 ] Relationship to the Black Death
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The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. [2] A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska. [3]
What is a Marmot? If you've never seen a marmot before, you might mistake them for another member of the rodent family , especially a groundhog. In reality, though, a marmot is a type of ground ...
The hoary marmot predominantly inhabits mountainous alpine environments to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) elevation, although coastal population also occur at or near sea level in British Columbia and Alaska. [6] Hoary marmots occur from southern Washington and central Idaho north, and are found through much of Alaska south of the Yukon River.