REGION — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry is looking for public input on a draft plan focused on management of large portions of land in Western Maine.

Mahoosuc Unit and Grafton Notch State Park, Rangeley Lake State Park, the Bald Mountain, Richardson, and Four Ponds Units, are some of the nature reserves included in the plan. Other smaller areas of land are also part of the draft.

Comments on the plan are being taken until Monday, Feb. 15.

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (MBPL) manages the reserves, with many sections being part of the Androscoggin Watershed.

The plan entails management recommendations made over the past five years for each park/unit and action that has been taken on some of those recommendations. Updated signage and map and guides, improved trails and trail relocation were some of things accomplished in the past couple years in the parks/units.

The MPBL also got more employees on trails and at Appalachian Trail parking lots to provide information purposes, another goal reached in the plan.

The draft plan can be found at https://www.maine.gov/dacf/western_mountains.

People can submit comments via email to Jim Vogel at: [email protected] or by post to: Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Public Lands, #22 State House Station, Augusta, ME  04333-0022.