-Royal Basin, Olympic National Park. Sent in by Woody and Lori who tell us the Olympic Marmots were their constant companions at the campground above Royal Lake. Submit us your photo from your corner of Washington, and add our Facebook application.
Two days after the Olympic marmot officially became the state endemic mammal, Secretary of State Sam Reed and others celebrated Washington’s newest state symbol with a “Marmot Day” event in our office Tuesday morning. (TVW plans to air the ceremony Wednesday at 9 p.m., with rebroadcasts Thursday at 9 a.m. and Friday at 6 p.m.) Sam recognized and thanked a group of students from Seattle’s Wedgwood Elementary School and their teacher, Kelly Clark, for thinking of the “marmot bill” and persuading…