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Clam Digging at 8,000 Feet, A Love Letter to the Oceans of Eastern Montana artwork
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Clam Digging at 8,000 Feet, A Love Letter to the Oceans of Eastern Montana

Field Notes from the Montana Natural History Center by Montana Public Radio

May 19, 20264:56Science & Medicine

The first oceans I explored as a child were those of eastern Montana. I spent nearly three decades of my life in ancient oceans before I ever got my feet wet in a modern living ocean.

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