News & Media
"Indigenous Cultural Burning Returned to the University of Kansas Field Station"
Good Morning Indian Country. November 2025
"Tree rings reveal how Apache people used fire to shape and protect their environment"
The Arizona Republic, November 2025.
"KU researcher’s new work focuses on Indigenous fire sovereignty"
University of Kansas News, November 2025.
“Indigenous Wisdom in Climate Care with Rachael Cavanagh and Dr. Melinda Adams”
Good Fire Podcast, April 2025.
Dr. Adams featured in “Bringing ‘Good Fire’ Back to the Land”how Indigenous cultural burns
heal tribes, forests and waterways.
Reasons to be Cheerful, April 2025.
Dr. Melinda Adams featured on UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, & The Environment: Climate Break
UC Berkeley Law, October 2024.
KU Professor holds Indigenous burn at the KU Field Station
The Lawrence Journal World, November 2024.
KU Professor leads cultural burn at Field Station
Lawrence Times, November 2024.
NPR, August 2024.
Dr. Melinda Adams feature in the PBS series “A People’s History of Native America"
PBS, March 2024.
"When Fire Speaks: Traditional Ecological Practices in Action"
Climify podcast, March 2024.
"Dr. Melinda Adams, Indigenous fire scientist, newest Super Scientist leading a new series!"
Codemakers NPC, November 2023.
“Professor Spreads The Gospel Of ‘Good Fire’ Through An Eco-Cultural Lens”.
KU News, July 2023.
“Humble Fire and Traditional Ecological Practices with Cultural Fire Scholar, Dr. Melinda Adams”.
Life With Fire Podcast, August 2023.
“A Conversation with Dr. Melinda Adams. Good Fire, Cultural Fire, and Loving Where You Live”.
The Hotshot Wakeup: news about Wildfires, Fire tech, and Wildfire Policy, June 2023.
“Wildfires: Forests need more fire, not less”.
Semafor Global News Interview, June 2023.
The Window, July 2023.
"Rekindling the Practice of Cultural Burning: An Act of Climate Hope".
The Revelator, January 2023.
“Cultural Burning is Key to Fighting Severe Wildfires, Indigenous practitioners Say”.
NPR CapRadio News, November 2022.
“Native Americans Share Ancient Wildfire Mitigation”.
CBS Sacramento, November 2022.
"8 UC Davis Scientists Turning Climate Anxiety into Climate Action".
The University of California, Davis Science and Climate, August 2022.