Assam is a land of cultural heritage embracing several communities and a land of rich natural resources. The Mising community, originally a hill tribe of the Abor hills constitutes the second largest tribe next to the Bodos in terms of population with nature based rich culture and eco-friendly life pattern. The natural environment plays a significant role in shaping their culture and traditional practices. Women play active roles in preserving their cultural identity through their food, dresses and maintaining their households. But the never ending depletion of natural resources has severely affected their socio-economic and cultural life. The paper is based upon participation observation and feminist research methodology which places the situation and experiences of women at the heart of the study. The study limits itself with the study of rural Mising women belonging to the villages surrounding the Poba Reserve Forest, a rain forest located at the Assam-Arunachal border falling under upper Assam district of Dhemaji in northeast India.