Collaborative Learning Circle activities over the years include workshops, field tours, working session retreats, and conferences to share strategies, skills and lessons learned. CLC approaches at this time focus on capacity-building for emerging and underserved groups. CLC works to foster learning, meaningful exchange, and productive relationships among people with a diverse range of perspectives.

CLC events provide a unique venue for practitioners in our region to discuss the practical aspects on-the-ground natural resource programs that are sustainable and equitable. Participants gain organizational exposure, strategic brainstorming, knowledge of funding opportunities, and moral support. Through networking, we work to ensure that large-scale programs reach the ground to support local, community-based, forest restoration.

CLC participants work on the nuts and bolts of:
· ecosystem-management,
· watershed restoration,
· sustainable forest practices,
· community fire planning and fuels reduction,
· biophysical monitoring, and
· value-added local forest products.


CLC WORKING SESSIONS
CLC participants gather periodically in different communities across the bioregion for one- to two-day working sessions, where we update one another on our activities and plans, and hold workshops on specific strategies. The 2007 Working Session is on August 25, 2007 in Arcata.

CLC SUPPORTS INNOVATION
Through small grants to organizations, CLC fosters project development by providing financial support for under-served and smaller groups.

REGIONAL NETWORKING
CLC participates in community, county, state, regional, national and international networks. We keep one another aware of both local and broader network activities through updates at working sessions, email and listserve communication – as well as cross-participation in these other networks. These include (among others):
· Alliance of Forest Workers & Harvesters
· Alliance for Sustainable Jobs in the Environment
· Forest Stewardship Council
· Healthy Forests Healthy Communities
· National Network of Forest Practitioners
· Salmonid Restoration Federation
· Trees Foundation
· Watershed Councils