A study of dozens of ancient clam gardens around Quadra Island, British Columbia, showed that clam gardens grow four times more butter clams and twice as many littleneck clams as unterraced beaches do.
SEATTLE (AP) By the time you read this story, what it describes will probably have disappeared beneath the waves. That’s how it was meant to be and how it used to be. Since time immemorial, as the saying goes, people in what is now Washington and British Columbia farmed the sea with a type of environmental engineering called clam gardening.
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