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Silver Bay YMCA has been a popular location for Family Nature Summits over the years. It is a truly superb setting - check out our Silver Bay virtual tour to learn more.

We wanted to give you a sense of the history of Silver Bay and Family Nature Summits. Below are the participant handbooks from the 1997 and 1998 Family Nature Summits at Silver Bay. Of course our program in 2009 will be different, but we wanted to share these programs to show you how Summits have evolved over the years.

Note: These handbooks were produced by the National Wildlife Federation, not the current non-profit which runs the Family Nature Summits.

All of these links open as Adobe PDF files. The file size is listed to help you make a decision about whether your internet connection is large enough to facilitate a quick file download.

Thank you to Annie Tiberio Cameron for lending her copies of the 1997 and 1998 handbooks to scan, and to Elizabeth White for sending the 1987 handbook.

Do you have memories from past Silver Bay Family Summits (or Conservation Summits as they were known then)? Let us know at info@familysummits.org.

1987 Summit - Handbook (1,798 Kb)