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Dr. Melinda Adams
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Asst. Prof KU | Indigenous fire scholar | Apache Env. Scientist | @ucdavis alum #goodfire 🔥🌿
Professor week 14 of fall 🍁🌻
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Yay to 1,000 of you 🌿🔥 hi! I hardly check in here, hope you’re well!
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Excited to host my first event here @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social! We will be having a session on Indigenous land restoration with two baddies in the field, Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social and Dr. Cherie Devore (aka AISES Early Career Scholar of the year) on Oct. 10th!
September 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fire historian Stephen Pyne wrote a commentary on our recent 🔥PNAS article: “Fire practices can support appeals to comanage ancestral lands or transfer them outright. Fire has entered the larger discourse over colonization. Roos et al. make this case explicit.” #goodfire
August 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It happened y’all. My team and I rec’d an “accept with no revisions” on our paper to be published this winter. Exciting🔥🌿
August 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My lab’s 1st M.S. student unanimously passed her thesis proposal defense! She is Makah & Wichita and is studying fire-soil restoration🌱 #goodfire #wildfire
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Students and Early Career 📢 Join our National SAFE Officers and @scholarmelinda.bsky.social for "Indigenous Cultural Fire: Implications for Research, Policy, and Data Sovereignty in California and Beyond" on April 15th at 2pm PST 🔥 Learn more and register here: ow.ly/xXP750VvRch
April 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grateful to have spent time cultural burning in the Yosemite Valley last week..this pic was from 2021 & the lands & waters look so good! This is what Indigenous fire stewardship looks like #goodfire #wildfire #california
February 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Bear Rock, Mariposa, California 🐻⛰️ #yosemite #california #goodfire
February 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Idk how many ppl are on @LinkedIn but I updated my profile, finally 🌿 let’s connect! www.linkedin.com/in/scholarme...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It’s #WorldSoilDay2024 🤲🏽 healthy plants need healthy soils: healthy soils need #goodfire 🌿🔥Here is my lab collecting pre burn cultural fire soil samples. #wildfire #science #Indigenous
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Indigenous Professor, I specialize in wildfire and Indigenous Science. New to 🔵☁️
December 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM