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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 21d

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!

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Aug 6

It happened y’all. My team and I rec’d an “accept with no revisions” on our paper to be published this winter. Exciting🔥🌿

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · May 15

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

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Apr 8

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

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Feb 24

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

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Feb 16

Bear Rock, Mariposa, California 🐻⛰️ #yosemite #california #goodfire

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 28

🖐🏽 here for this!

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 26

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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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

✨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).

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the “Intentional Fire” podcast (2023). Vikki Preston, Karuk, Yurok, Paiute, and Pit River.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments (2019). Monique Wynecoop, Pit River and Maidu.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

The (re) emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia (2022). Vanessa Cavanagh, Bundjalung and Wonnarua.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

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.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

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.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
(2022), Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Métis.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Returning fire to the Land (2017), Dr. Frank Lake, Karuk.

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Jan 19

Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Dec 6

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

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Dec 5

#Indigenous #rxfire #goodfire

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Dec 5

Ah! Yes please and here is where all the Indigenous scholars are 🥹 tysm Lydia and Kat 🌻

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Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social · Dec 5

Indigenous Professor, I specialize in wildfire and Indigenous Science. New to 🔵☁️

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