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Black Oak, Red Oak, and White Oak on the Full Circle Sanctuary. Photo by Bill Collins.

The TLC purchased the Full Circle Sanctuary in the 2022 State land auction. The Sanctuary was formerly part of the Port Huron State Game Area and is covered by an extensive swamp forest interspersed with low upland sand ridges covered by oaks. It is also located in an area of well-document Painted Trillium occurrence, a Michigan Endangered wildflower that is now recorded only from Saint Clair County in all of Michigan.

The TLC named the Sanctuary in honor of the Full Circle EcoHouse of Prayer in Port Huron and the continuing work of Sisters Veronica Blake and Concepción González, well-known members of the Blue Water area environmental community. Sister Veronica and Sister Concepción are members of the United States Region of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, an international religious congregation. Since its founding in France in 1857, the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix have been dedicated to repairing fractured relationships among humans and with God. In the second half of the 20th century, global environmental crises caused them to also focus on the need for humans to repair their relationship to the Earth.