SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Two mountain-dwelling marmots who mysteriously appeared in the cities of San Francisco and Antioch earlier this month are now back in the wilderness near Lake Tahoe. The marmots spent 18 days rehabilitating at Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue before they were ready to return to their natural alpine habitat. Two marmots believed to have hitchhiked their way to the Bay Area with Burning Man travelers were released back into the wild near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday after they were mistakenly carried roughly 200 miles from their home.
Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue (YUWR), which had been caring for the animals since they were captured, said [...]
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