Pacific Northwest tribal nations have a long history of modifying mudflats to optimize the yield of multiple species of clams in the intertidal. The Clam Garden network is an active collaboration between tribal nations, resource managers, researchers and academics that is international and inter-agency, to promote the restoration, research and development of clam gardens based on traditional indigenous knowledge. In our student course, we have been reading this excellent paper about the archaeological study of butter clam (Saxidomus gigantea) consumption:

11,500 y of human–clam relationships provide long-term context for intertidal management in the Salish Sea, British Columbia

Ginevra Toniello, Dana Lepofsky, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Anne K. Salomon, Kirsten Rowell

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2019, 116 (44) 22106-22114; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905921116