Anderson Preserve
24.9 Acres
Bloomfield Township, Huron County
Established 2023 December 28
24.9 Acres
Bloomfield Township, Huron County
Established 2023 December 28
Michael and Gail Anderson have protected 24.9 acres of their 40-acre parcel for passive recreation and low-intensity land-use such as hunting, firewood cutting, and limited forest management. Most of the conservation easement site is forested, a complex of mid-successional second-growth mesic to wet-mesic northern forest on sand ridges and southern hardwood swamp on wetland swales. The Anderson Preserve includes about 7% of the remaining forest in the section, which is part of a broadly agricultural landscape in Huron County. The mesic and wet-mesic northern upland forest includes Red Maple, Red x Silver Maple hybrids, Paper Birch, Black Cherry, Bigtooth Aspen, Basswood, Sugar Maple, Bur Oak, American Hornbeam, Ironwood, Juneberry, Choke Cherry, Dwarf Raspberry, Bracken Fern, and Wild Geranium. The southern hardwood swamp wetland forest includes Silver Maple, Red Maple, Red x Silver Maple hybrids, Green Ash, Eastern Cottonwood, Bur Oak, Swamp White Oak, Silky Dogwood, Dwarf Raspberry, False Nettle, Clearweed, Sensitive Fern, Spinulose Woodfern, and Tussock Sedge. Scattered shrub thickets under canopy openings and along the forest edges are dominated by Silky Dogwood, Gray Dogwood, Riverbank Grape, Sensitive Fern, Late Goldenrod, and Tussock Sedge. Minor inclusions of shrub swamp, wet meadow, and upland old-field are scattered throughout the forest and along the edges.
Approximately 4.6 acres of the Anderson Preserve is part of a roughly 7.5-acre lake excavated in a sand ridge. Roughly half of the Anderson Preserve consists of Stateregulated wetland which is connected to a creek that flows into Lake Huron north of the village of Port Hope.
Because of the value of the TLC conservation easement, the Andersons are able to take a significant federal income tax deduction over 15 years, the property taxes will not be uncapped upon sale, and they may be able to claim a local property tax reduction.