Comstock’s Magazine, in their March 2010 issue notes the importance of public private partnerships in the case of the Silver Lake Campers Association, a nonprofit that has been helping the city of Stockton take care of Silver Lakes Camps for 50 years.
As Sacramento County Park’s Effie Yeaw Nature Center struggles to survive, Silver Lake Camps is a model worth emulating, as a local nonprofit, the American River Natural History Association considers partnering with the County to operate the Nature Center.