FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington will once again host a local trail-maintaining group’s annual gathering.

The Maine Appalachian Trail Club is slated to conduct its 68th annual meeting from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in room C-131 at Robert’s Learning Center.

Updates will be provided by club members on major issues affecting Maine’s Appalachian Trail section. These include:

• A proposal by Endless Energy Corp. to create a wind generation plant atop the Redington Pond Range and Black Nubble mountains, approximately four miles west of Sugarloaf Mountain and eight miles south of Stratton.

• Western Mountains Foundation’s proposal to create new recreation trails in the 37,000-acre Bigelow Preserve as part of a new 180-mile hut and trails system running from Newry to Rockwood.

• The Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust, a new group that seeks to acquire, protect and preserve, for public benefit, the natural and ecological resources, and the primitive recreation experience of the Appalachian Trail and its surrounding lands in Maine.

In addition, reports by MATC trail overseers on the status and accomplishments of their districts will be accompanied by a slide presentation of Maine’s Appalachian Trail and trail work projects.

For an agenda or directions, visit www.matc.org/annual.htm.