Together we develop tools with which communities foster social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Integrated Strategic Planning

Finding synergies across past, present, and future projects is essential to maximize efficiency and minimize community expenditure. Land Forest People supports communities in weaving the fabric of a comprehensive stewardship program, drawing together achievements made in land use planning, land governance, emergency management planning, comprehensive community planning, and more.

Land, Water, and Resource Stewardship Planning

Sustainable communities exercise culturally-appropriate and environmentally-sound planning to achieve the physical, economic, and spiritual wellbeing across generations. We support communities in articulating and asserting their vision for the land and resources. (learn more)

Community Engagement

The success of any policy or project rests on finding and fulfilling community vision – on achieving internal social license. Land Forest People is present in community and on the land. Our first role in any project is to listen, to reflect, and to seek validation of community vision through early and ongoing community engagement. We use traditional and social media to share information and seek input in ways that are attractive, graphic, and accessible. (learn more)

Emergency MANAGEMENT

Emergency and disaster events disproportionately affect Indigenous communities. Despite a strong heritage of family and community self-reliance, colonialism has resulted in isolation, poverty, and dependence in many cases. Indigenous communities often face long response times, high response costs, and poor health outcomes.

Land Forest People assists communities develop effective and efficient emergency management programs with a foundation in inherent jurisdiction and in a spirit of Nation building. These programs build both collaboration and interoperability, and self-reliance. The goal is always a sustainable and resilient community. (learn more)

Land Use Research & Representation

Communities have intimate knowledge from generations of lives lived on the land; preserving and sharing this knowledge is key to the preservation of cultural keystone species and practices. We help communities record and mobilize traditional ecological knowledge through traditional use and occupancy research, biography mapping, guardianship and monitoring programs, with in-house GIS support. (learn more)

Policy Development

Land governance is a fundamental component of any title and rights program. We support Nations in setting policies, procedures, and implementation priorities and protocols for on- and off-reserve land use and development through land governance, land use planning, informed site planning, emergency preparedness, waste management, and housing planning. (learn more)