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CITY OF ROSLYN National Historic District and Preserve America Community Wilderness and wildlife and plant viewing. Connecting trails and creating a trail network was by far the hig he s t iden tified recreational need fo r Uppe r Kittitas county. Quiet pla ces to re creote and infrastructure for parkin g, trailheads, hitch ing pos ts, horse neec(s, trails, interpretive signs and mops also were identified. The diverse recreationists represented indicated similar pathways and pinch-points of interest for maintaining or creating ac cess. Th es'e locatio ns exist due to lack of public access, Impin ging development, or natural land and water features . These same path ways are also priorities fo r conservation con necti vity, thus ap prop riate planning mus t ad dress these dua l needs . Specific to the future Trails and Recre ati on Plan for the Roslyn Urban Forest, results indicate a clear need and des ire to connect the RUF up ove r the Cle Elum mdge into the Teanaway and down through Suncadia to the Cle Elum River. There is a need and desire to accomplish these connections through easements on private lands and connecting to USFS trails. The possibility exists, depending on the public's stared desire for quiet and avoidance of user conflict, for a regional snowmobile route from the Teanoway, whic h travels th rough the RUF, the Coal Mines Trail and up toward Salmon la Sac. Connectivity for non -motorized use bet ween the Coa l Mines Trail ond the RUF is desired while snowmobile use from the Coal Mines Tra il into the RUF should be deterred. Identified wildlife corridors should be incorporated into the trails and recreation planning for the RUF in order to maintain these critical pathways. The report concludes with the identification of a three-fold niche for the future of the Roslyn Urban Forest in terms of Trails and Recreation: 1. Embrace both the education opportunities and needs/desires for interpretation and learn from the natural and restoring forest; also offer a more rugged, unstructured opportunity to explore and adventure without direction. 2. Maintain the habitat quality of the forest for connectivity. 3. Ensure the future sustain ability of the town of Roslyn in the face of large storm and run-off events in which large amounts of water can flow down through and from the RUF. Future work of the RUF Trails and Recreation Plan will incorporate these results, combined with a Community Vision Workshop in May of 2011, into a design charrette in October 2011 through a partnersh ip with the Na tional Park Se rvice's Rivers Trails and Conser vation Assistance Program and the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architec:ts. Survey Results 12