From PEW: Always something new to learn about...."Clam Gardens"!

 

🧠 🌊 Beaches with clam gardens produce between 150%-300% more clams than beaches that don't have these gardens.www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2024/07/26/from-lab-to-life-how-indigenous-knowledge-informs-science-today.

Marco Hatch, in an orange jacket, leads his students on a tour of a clam garden on the Washington state coastline. For centuries, Indigenous communities have created clam gardens, which increase food production and keep beaches healthy by overturning sediment. A Pew marine fellow, Hatch seeks to better incorporate Indigenous-led ecosystem management into broader conservation strategies. (Credit: Marco Hatch/Western Washington University)