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access and spread it out so that we are careful to not destroy the very thing that we love. Trails can take people to great places and trails can route people and impacts away from other areas, like priority wildlife and habitat corridors." Project Goals • Develop partnerships with private landowners for public trail use • Create new and enhance existing wildlife corridors, and foster regional environmental stewardship • Develop a public, stacked loop trail system • Design lively trailheads that can serve as economic drivers for the region • Ensure new trails are sustainable and low maintenance • Work with volunteers to develop and maintain trails • Ensure non -motorized and snowmobile trails adhere to standard policies of TNC • Create accessible trails and trailheads • Create recreation opportunities to build a healthy community • Minimize impacts to the local community Opportunities and Constraints A massive project like the Teanaway Corridor trail plan is built upon existing conditions that provide positive opportunities while also limiting the practicality of some design concepts. See Opportunities and Constraints Map in the Site Analysis Appendix for additional observations. Opportunities: • Build on existing system of trails in Roslyn Urban Forest • Connect to trails on the Teanaway Community Forest (TCF) • Create destination viewpoints along Cle Elum Ridge: at Wedding Rock and at ridge connections to the Teanaway valley. Constraints: • Protect critical wildlife habitat in Canyon 3 corridor, elk winter range, and other sensitive wildlife habitats. • Create a series of trailheads, at each community to protect private property and improve connections to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) forest lands Case Study Examples The following case study examples serve as models of different types of trail systems, some with solely mountain bike trails and some with a variety of user groups. These can help guide the discussion on what the appropriate mix of trail types could be for the Cle Elum Ridge trail system. The maps for these trail systems are included in the Case Study Appendix. • Tumut State Forest Mountain Bike Trails - limits the complexity by only identifying blue and black diamond trails • Helena Montana South Hills MTB trail network - 4 mountain bike trails are divided by difficulty levels: easy, medium, difficult and most difficult. Approximately 60% to 70% of the trails are "medium." • Port Gamble Trails - 25% green/easy trails; 25% black diamond/most difficult trails; 50% blue/intermediate trails; shared use for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. • Whistler Trail System - mountain bike trails, hiking trails, hiking & mountain bike shared use trails, and mountain bike park; majority of trails are blue/"challenging", some green/"somewhat challenging" trails and some black diamond/"difficult" trails (mainly in mountain bike park). Towns to Teanaway Corridor Master Plan p 18 of 26 Prepared for: Economic Development Group of Kittitas Co. & Kittitas Co. Parks and Recreation District No. 1 Prepared by: J.A. Brennan Associates, Landscape Architects & Planners