It was a great pleasure to be part of the Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust’s seminar on Woodland Heritage held in and around Newton Stewart, Galloway, on 7th & 8th June 2012, an event supported by the Community Woodlands Association amongst others. The seminar included morning talks, many by local experts, followed by afternoon site visits to the Cree Valley and Knockman’s woods, rich cultural woods with rather differing but equally interesting site histories. These will be teased out further in CVCWT’s new woodland heritage project, a community-led project being funded by HLF amongst others. I look forward to following its progress on www.creevalley.com