This presentation highlights the preliminary aims and research findings of a project investigating the relationship between human interaction and plant use across northern Australia. The research will focus on the relationship and interconnection between human movements on known clan lands in Far North Queensland’s Wet Tropics, and the associated key plant food resources. Using Plant genetics and cultural knowledge the aim of this research is to understand if and how biogeographic distribution occurred in Far North Queensland’s Wet Tropics, with the primary focus being on Lepidozamia hopei (Hope’s Cycad), which is patchily distributed across the Wet Tropics. Through the integration of genetic sampling and ethnobotanical narratives, I aim to investigate how plant DNA diversity and distribution can contribute to the understanding of translocation, cultural resource distribution and plant management. The research aims to better understand if this cycad species’ seeds were purposely selected for quality, perhaps by size, and then translocated to other seasonal living sites to propagate for future use. Findings of the research have the potential to identify human-mediated gene flow between known living sites and may provide a better understanding of Traditional Owner connection to country based on the resource plants existing in proximity of living sites. Establishing a connection via plant DNA could provide a scientific link between plant resource DNA and a specific clan group. Research outcomes have the potential to increase our understanding of resource use and plant selection, cycad clusters, and determine the originating source and how clusters are structured across the landscape. There is potential to understand the correlation between rainforest people movements within Wet Tropics rainforests through DNA flow analysis. Other research outputs will include creation of geospatial maps of specific cycad clusters and retrieval of plant material samples for DNA analysis to establish if direct connections can be established.