Larry (known as “Klem” around the park) was born and raised in cold & snowy Buffalo, NY; that’s one reason he lives in Southern California! Klem was an Air Force pilot, mostly flying the C-9A Nightingale, an Aeromedical Evacuation airplane. He flew hospital patients around most of the Americas. Don’t get him started on flying stories! In 1982, Klem left the Air Force, moved to Placentia, and started a new company, which designs and builds various military and civilian aerospace video products. Klem loves the outdoors, including geocaching, hiking and mountain biking; he passed that love onto two grown daughters. He has been volunteering at the CHSP Discovery Center for several years, and can be found behind the Discovery Center desk on many Sunday mornings.
Tom Greene, Vice President
Tom Greene, originally from Illinois, has been a resident of Chino Hills for over 15 years. He has been an active user of the State Park since 1992. Beginning in 1999, Tom became associated with the volunteer program working on habitat enhancement projects for the Natural History Unit. These projects include working on native plant propagation in the nursery and also going out into the field and taking part in projects to return the plants to their native habitat. Tom also leads interpretive hikes throughout the State Park in which he helps identify native flora and fauna and points out the unique features of the various natural communities within the Park. Tom is also a member of the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Authority Advisory Committee, which helps in the preservation, conservation, and environmental protection of the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor.
Eric has had an interest in Chino Hills State Park since moving to the area over 20 years ago. He is the chair of the Puente-Chino Hills Task Force of the Sierra Club. He leads hikes throughout the Wildlife Corridor and has organized trail maintenance and bridge building opportunities for community volunteers.
Claire Schlotterbeck, Secretary
Claire Schlotterbeck has lived most of her life in Southern California. She has been a resident of Brea since 1978 and a long time advocate for Chino Hills State Park and the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. Claire currently serves as Executive Director of Hills For Everyone, the non-profit group that founded Chino Hills State Park. Claire, like Tom, is an appointed member of the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Authority Advisory Committee, a joint powers authority that is working to connect the remaining natural lands in the Puente-Chino Hills.
Ron has been a resident of Chino Hills since 1978. He is a retired supervising park ranger with twenty one years with County of Orange Regional Parks. He is an avid hiker and mountain biker and has served twelve years on the City of Chino Hills Parks and Recreation Commission. He has also been a park patron and supporter of Chino Hills State Park since its inception.
Yen has been a resident of Placentia since 2002. She started volunteering at the Discovery Center shortly after it opened to the public. You can often see her running in the park, covering a 10 miles radius in distance on different trails. She loves to direct visitors, hikers, and especially runners, about which trail they can go explore.
Mary Ann Wotring, Board Member
Mary Ann has lived in Chino Hills for 16 years and has often visited the park during that time. She is a retired city planner and holds a Masters degree in Public Administration for Cal State Long Beach. Several years ago she joined Chino Hills State Park as a volunteer ranger at the Discovery Center. Mary Ann is a member of Soroptimist International of Bellflower and a board member of the Soroptimist Village Foundation, which is a low-income senior housing village in Norwalk. She loves the outdoors and can often be seen hiking in the Big Bear Lake area. In her spare time Mary Ann and her husband are Life Master Bridge Players and enjoy playing the card game in tournaments.
Mary was born and raised in Southern California and has lived near Chino Hills State Park (CHSP) for over 30 years. She loves traveling, hiking and photography and has hiked on all 7 continents in places such as Antarctica (her favorite), Patagonia, Peru. Ecuador, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Scotland, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, and Kenya. Mary hikes often in the local mountains and nearly every week in CHSP. Mary has the dubious distinction of being helicoptered out of CHSP after breaking her leg while hiking. Her recommendation is to pay attention, even if the trail is flat and easy!
Fred spends much of his time hiking, biking, or running in the State Park. Along with Eric, he leads monthly Sierra Club hikes in the local hills, helps with the Chino Hills Trail Run series, and has helped to remove several miles of barbed wire and build some bridges in the State Park. In addition, he backpacks, back country skis and scuba dives. Fred has funded his outdoor addiction through a 33-year career as an Aerospace Engineer.
Lisa LaFlame, Board Member
Lisa has lived and worked in Brea for nearly 20 years. Since 2013, she has been leading volunteer workdays at Chino Hills State Park with the California State Parks Foundation and enjoys teaching others about the Park’s importance as a wildlife corridor and biodiversity hotspot. She has done advocacy work in Sacramento for State Parks funding and conservation as well as for protecting our iconic Western Joshua Trees. She is a professional geophysicist and a commercial pilot. Despite not having a lot of time, she gets in as much backpacking and hiking as possible.
Teri Pope, Cooperating Association Liaison
Teri Pope started her Parks career as both a Graduate Student Assistant in the State Parks Photographic Archive, and as a Park Aide at Sutter’s Fort, both in the Sacramento area. Her first permanent position was as a Guide I at the California State Capitol. Graduating from there to a decade as an Interpreter I on Angel Island SP, in San Francisco Bay, leading Living History Programs, and spending the last two years as an Interpreter II at Silverwood Lake, she feels like she has found her home in the Inland Empire, so is thrilled to be the Interpreter III for the district.