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According to Wikipedia, marmots -- large squirrels -- eat greens: "...types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots and flowers." So foraging for food on Vancouver Island shouldn't be hard, since it is a lush, green woodland area, except for settled cities and towns.


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