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The 65-acre preserve has been a legacy story for bald eagles. This property's conservation story began when a local resident notified The Nature Conservancy and Ford Motor Company's Mining Properties Department, original property owner, about the presence of Bald Eagles, which then resulted in the land being set aside as an eagle preserve in 1995. In 2002, the preserve was then transferred to the Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy where it will continue to be protected forever. The preserve is located on the north shore of Ski-kew zaag'igan Lake in Republic Township and provides a necessary pocket of wilderness, notable for it's large white pines providing ideal nesting habitat. Though a storm brought down a favorite nesting tree of the eagles, the land is still protected in reverence for this incredible bird. UPLC continues to monitor for bald eagle nesting presence annually. Though there haven't been a nesting pair in a number of years, there are abundant resources for other nesting birds and wildlife in the preserve.