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Dr. Jennifer Grenz

@jennifergrenz.bsky.social

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Land healer, invasive species battler, food systems revitalizer & proud Interior Salish 👩🏻‍🌾 applying an Indigenous worldview to Ecology @UBCForestry 🌲🫐🍓Author of, “Medicine Wheel for the Planet” www.jennifergrenz.com www.indigenousecology.com

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · 24d

What an honour! kʷukʷscémxʷ (thank you)! #ecology #scicom #rightsofnature #tek

The Lane Anderson Award @laneandersonaward.bsky.social · 24d

Introducing the 2025 Lane Anderson Award Adult Shortlist! Visit our website for more info: laneandersonaward.ca/2025-shortli... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @jennifergrenz.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @sarahkcox.bsky.social

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Check out our new pub: From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ecology #tek #wildfire #climatechange #conservation

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery

This study reanalyzes post-wildfire vegetation trajectory data with Indigenous plant classification systems co-developed with St'át'imc communities, revealing that conventional “native/non-native” pl...

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Been off here for a bit, giving myself a little break. Hope field season has been good to everyone! Here are some of my highlights. #ecology #tek #invasivespecies

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · May 27

The king reading a land acknowledgement is all you need to know about land acknowledgements.

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · May 24

Thank you to En’owkin Center & Penticton Indian Band for hosting my Indigenous Ecology Lab @ sharing time & knowledges on Syilx lands with us today. Incredible wetland restoration project & so many good words shared! #ecology #traditionalecologicalknowledge #invasivespecies

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Apr 10

Honoured to be a finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize as part of the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! Incredible to be amongst such amazing books and authors! #bcandyukonbookprizes #ecology

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Apr 7

Lucky enough to be sitting with and learning from one of my heros, Dr. David Suzuki, at the First Nations Climate Gathering. Looking forward to presenting about climate impacts to food systems and food sovereignty at the event. #climatechange #ecology #foodsecurity #indigenousknowledge #tek

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Mar 28

Big Leaf. Acer macrophyllum.

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Mar 28

It’s like this under the mother tree too. Never seen this before! Maybe I’ll be a Maple Tree farmer now.

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Mar 28

I might end up broke! Not pictured, 12 more beds like this!

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Mar 28

When mulching with leaves backfires 🤦🏻‍♀️. Whatever the secret sauce for breaking maple seed dormancy is, this winter found it. Now what?! #gardening #ecology #farming

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Mar 23

Just cancelled my lab’s in-person participation at a conference in the United States. I’m so disappointed and sad that it has come to this. I agonized for days over this and got some very good advice to arrive at this decision. What a sad and unnecessary situation. #canada #academicchatter #ecology

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 27

So incredibly proud of PhD Cand from my lab, Vanessa Jones, on her first place win for grad student presentations at the Canadian Weed Science Society/Weed Science Society of America conference this week! @forestry.ubc.ca #weedscience #wssa2025 #cwss2025 #invasivespecies

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 20

Talking wildfire restoration today and making good trouble with my fire boss pal Joe Gilchrist! #indigenousstem #ecology #goodfire

Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thanks! Had to spread the love! ShopTaby is the best!

Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 15

For those unable to join us last night, here is a link to my conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer youtu.be/bt4zcK2cQU0?...
#ecology #indigenousstem #conservation @forestry.ubc.ca @ubclfs.bsky.social

An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer

YouTube video by West Vancouver Memorial Library

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 15

What a thrill of a lifetime to get to speak with Robin Wall Kimmerer this evening. I hear some folx couldn’t get into the zoom, but the will be posting the recording on the West Vancouver Library website soon and I’ll be sure to post a link when it is! I can’t believe I just got to do that! #ecology

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 13

Event with Robin Wall Kimmerer is now virtual so sign up to watch this Friday evening! westvanlibrary.ca/event/an-eve... #ecology #indigenousstem @forestry.ubc.ca

[VIRTUAL] An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer hosted by Dr. Jennifer Grenz - West Vancouver Memorial Library

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer, acclaimed author of Braiding Sweetgrass with Dr. Jennifer Grenz, as they discuss her new book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. The evening w...

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 9

Excuse me m’am, you shouldn’t be working on a Saturday night. #dogs #puppies

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 8

Sure is… can’t quite believe it 💚

Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 8

Kinda fun to see this tonight! The best rankings ever for my book, “Medicine Wheel for the Planet”! Thanks for the support 🙌🏽 #ecology #indigenousscience #invasivespecies #climatechange #medicinewheelfortheplanet

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 7

Who needs a groundhog when you’ve got bears? Guess it’s time to be a little more vigilant again. Bring on spring! #bears #tracks

Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are so excited to be doing research alongside Kwiakah First Nation and have use of the incredible facilities they are building in Phillips Arm! A dream to assist with land healing in the Great Bear Rainforest! #ecology #indigenousstem @ubcforestry www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/31/n...

B.C.'s smallest First Nation has big plans for a 'stewardship' economy

The tiny Kwiakah First Nation, with 19 members, has launched a “return home” by transforming a former open-net salmon farm into a floating, solar-powered scientific hub anchored in their traditional t...

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here is some info about the Nations involved in guardianship of this park parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/pac...

Indigenous co-operative management

Working collaboratively with First Nations to achieve long-term conservation and sustainable use of natural and cultural resources.

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Dr. Jennifer Grenz @jennifergrenz.bsky.social · Feb 6

A great afternoon with the Nuu-chah-nulth territories’ land guardians for their Indigenous stewardship workshop with Parks Canada (Pacific Rim National Park Reserve). An awesome group of like minded folx. Good medicine to share with them. #indigenousstem #landguardians #ecology #parkscanada

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