Dr. Melinda Adams
@scholarmelinda.bsky.social
Asst. Prof KU | Indigenous fire scholar | Apache Env. Scientist | @ucdavis alum #goodfire 🔥🌿
Professor week 14 of fall 🍁🌻
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Professor week 14 of fall 🍁🌻
Yay to 1,000 of you 🌿🔥 hi! I hardly check in here, hope you’re well!
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Yay to 1,000 of you 🌿🔥 hi! I hardly check in here, hope you’re well!
🚨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
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
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
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
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 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
✨The article I’m most proud of:
Solastalgia to soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing (2023). Melinda Adams, N’dee San Carlos Apache (OP).
Solastalgia to soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing (2023). Melinda Adams, N’dee San Carlos Apache (OP).
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
✨The article I’m most proud of:
Solastalgia to soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing (2023). Melinda Adams, N’dee San Carlos Apache (OP).
Solastalgia to soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing (2023). Melinda Adams, N’dee San Carlos Apache (OP).
Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the “Intentional Fire” podcast (2023). Vikki Preston, Karuk, Yurok, Paiute, and Pit River.
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the “Intentional Fire” podcast (2023). Vikki Preston, Karuk, Yurok, Paiute, and Pit River.
Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments (2019). Monique Wynecoop, Pit River and Maidu.
January 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments (2019). Monique Wynecoop, Pit River and Maidu.
The (re) emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia (2022). Vanessa Cavanagh, Bundjalung and Wonnarua.
January 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The (re) emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia (2022). Vanessa Cavanagh, Bundjalung and Wonnarua.
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities (2023). Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
January 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities (2023). Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Putting Fire on the Land: The Indigenous People Spoke the Language of Ecology, and Understood the Connectedness and Relationship Between Land, Water, and Fire (2022). The Honorable Ron W. Goode, Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe.
January 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Putting Fire on the Land: The Indigenous People Spoke the Language of Ecology, and Understood the Connectedness and Relationship Between Land, Water, and Fire (2022). The Honorable Ron W. Goode, Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe.
Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
(2022), Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Métis.
(2022), Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Métis.
January 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
(2022), Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Métis.
(2022), Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Métis.
Returning fire to the Land (2017), Dr. Frank Lake, Karuk.
January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Returning fire to the Land (2017), Dr. Frank Lake, Karuk.
Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire
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
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