Board of Directors

Nick Ervin, MA, MFT: President

Nick Ervin as been exploring, studying and working to conserve the California deserts for nearly 30 years. He first became active in conservation when he gave testimony on the original California Desert Plan in 1978. A member of the Sierra Club since 1977, he served as chair of that organization’s Desert subcommittee and its Ancient Forest group. He was Conservation Chair of the San Diego-Imperial County chapter of the Sierra Club on two occasions for a total of nearly four years, and co-founded the chapter’s population subcommittee. He spent eight years as one of the principal organizers in San Diego for the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. He has lobbied in Washington, D.C. for both the Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to two terms on the BLM's California Desert District Advisory Council (1995 through 2000). With the Desert Protective Council, Nick has served on the Board for nearly 15 years and has been President twice. He has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California for many years, and also worked as a professional conservationist from 2000 to 2004 for a non-profit working to save the mountain and dry tropical forests of the Andes in South America.

Contact Nick Ervin: desertguy1 AT sbcglobal DOT net

Larry Klaasen: Treasurer

Bio coming soon.

Contact Larry Klaasen: lklaasen AT sbcglobal DOT net

Pauline Jimenez

Pauline Jimenez discovered backpacking in 1976 when she took the Basic Mountaineering Course (now Wilderness Basics Course), which was offered by the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club. She became a Sierra Club member that same year, and a Chapter Outings Leader in 1993. In 2010, Pauline was awarded the Sierra Club’s Silver Cup Award for her long-term leadership of the Hi Sierran Committee (which publishes the chapter’s bi-monthly newsletter), leadership of chapter outings and backpacks, Wilderness Basics Course instruction and leadership, and her long-standing service as the chapter’s Outings Committee secretary. This is the club’s highest chapter award. Pauline retired as an Executive Secretary from the City of San Diego in 2011, after almost 38 years of service. She continues to lead Sierra Club outings and backpacks typically in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is a new volunteer trail guide for the San Diego Natural History Museum, and is proud to continue her long-standing membership in Toastmasters, International. Her trail avocations include ethnobotany, “naked eye” astronomy, playing her guitar, and singing under the stars.

Contact Pauline Jimenez: hiknlady AT me DOT com

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Updated 10/27/2010