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Alpine critters impact on the Himmelsbach Hut (audio)

A brown marmot with tufts of white fur on its chest sits in an alpine meadow surrounded by purple flowers and green grasses.
Marmota caligata (Hoary Marmot). Taken by Steven Pavlov.

Audio: Oral Interview with Don MacLaurin; Interviewer: Jeff Slack; Source: Whistler Museum and Archives Society; Date: 2013.

Photo by Steven Pavlov; Source: WikiMedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmota_caligata_(Hoary_Marmot).jpg); Date: September 10, 2011.

Don MacLaurin said, “You know one of the things we learned very quickly within the first year or so. We used what was called Crezon and it was a plywood by Crown [??] and it had an application probably for fighting of disease and rot and so on and so forth. What we didn’t know was that it had salt added into it and when he came back the first time to look at the Russet Lake Hut, the marmots loved it and chewed there way through this stuff {chuckling} so we had to replace that.”