FARMINGTON — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands will hold a public meeting Wednesday on the proposed Crocker Mountain Management Plan.

The hearing will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the University of Maine at Farmington’s Roberts Learning Center, 270 Main St.

The plan will guide the bureau’s multiple-use management of the Crocker Mountain Public Lands Unit, which totals over 12,000 acres. The meeting is for receiving comments on the final draft of the plan.

The lands to be addressed are in two main areas: Crocker Mountain (8,000 acres), west of Sugarloaf Mountain, and the Rapid Stream area (4,000 acres), south of Sugarloaf and north of Mount Abraham.

The resulting management plan will become part of the Flagstaff Region Management Plan, and will be effective until June 2022.

The Crocker Mountain Unit encompasses a 9.7-mile section of the Appalachian Trail corridor. Snowmobile and ATV trails cross the area on forest management roads. A condition of the acquisition includes designating a section as an ecological reserve.

According to a written statement by the Department of Agriculture, at least half of the total property will be managed as a multiple-use working forest where timber harvesting will occur.

For more information about the plan, go to www.maine.gov/dacf/flagstaff and scroll down to the Crocker Mountain Plan section. The page provides the current and past draft plans and meeting minutes.