Pamela Perreault is a member of Garden River First Nation in Ontario. Her academic and consulting careers have taken her across Canada and around the world in pursuit of knowledge and understanding of Indigenous peoples connection with forested landscapes. Between 1997 and 2014 she lived in British Columbia and worked extensively with First Nation communities and organizations on natural resource issues such as consultation policy development and implementation, forest resource management, land-use planning, non-timber forest resources (NTFRs), community-based research and Aboriginal governance related to lands and resources. Her recent work on the implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the FSC certification context has exposed her to emerging opportunities and solutions of community engagement focused on Indigenous Peoples self-determined development.