Andy and Natalie Ellis, in partnership with adjacent landowners Michael and Gail Anderson, have protected 34.4 acres of their 42.5-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 midsuccessional second-growth mesic to wet-mesic northern forest on sand ridges and southern hardwood swamp on wetland swales. The Ellis 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. Old-field covers the west end of the Ellis Preserve, dominated largely by Wild Carrot, Late Goldenrod, and unidentified grasses with scattered Big Bluestem Grass. Roughly half of the Ellis Preserve consists of State-regulated 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 Ellises 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.