3/147 CREE VALLEY COMMUNITY WOODLANDS     Lead Organisation: Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust Total Cost: £441,100 Millennium Commission Grant: £147,000   Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust is a charitable organisation which is working to create native broadleaved community woodland in the catchment area of the River Cree. Through partnership with landowners, public agencies and the local community the Millennium Forest project has extended and linked the existing oakwood remnants at several sites stretching from Glenhead above Loch Trool down the River Cree into Newton Stewart. The value of these oakwoods is recognised by two SSSIs and the RSPB reserve at Wood of Cree but they have been fragmented in the past by extensive conifer plantations. Now many of these conifers have been removed from within existing oakwoods, while native broadleaves have been planted and natural regeneration encouraged. Timber made available from coppicing the existing oakwood is utilised locally with the aim of encouraging commercial use of oakwood products. Paths have been constructed or improved to enable visitors to link with the different woodland sites and other places of interest in the area.