The Barriere Lake Trilateral Agreement is a resource co-management framework covering 1 million hectares of traditional Algonquin territory in Northern Quebec. It was signed August 22, 1991 by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, The Government of Quebec, and the Government of Canada. The agreement set out four years to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the forestry and wildlife resources in the region and draft and implement a long-term integrated co-management plan between the Algonquin community and the Government of Quebec. It is considered significant in that it presented a model example of indigenous co-management and an alternative to comprehensive land claims policies based on extinguishing title. It was commended by the United Nations as a trailblazer of indigenous-state partnersh