Tim Pacey passes away

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Tim Pacey passes away

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For the folks here from the "old forum", Tim Pacey was a frequent poster. He led a moosewatch trip each Spring for the researchers. Sad to hear of his passing. He had a heart attack on IR after finishing a moosewatch trip. If I have to go, IR would be a great place to go. Leave me there!! From the FB Wolves and Moose of IR:

Tim Pacey, 1959-2015
On May 21 Tim died at Isle Royale of a sudden heart attack after leading a Moosewatch team for a week. Tim was our longest-serving leader of volunteer field teams for Earthwatch/Moosewatch in Isle Royale National Park, having led one or more teams every year during 1996-2015. He didn’t like the limelight, but his stories became the stuff of legends – finding and carrying out a set of bull moose skulls with locked antlers (the two largest bull moose recovered at Isle Royale), the “stick-in-the-bum” Pacey maneuver, and the several-ton yellow birch tree that crashed to the forest floor while just grazing Tim’s leg as he leaped out of the way. When prompted to tell one of his stories, Tim would characteristically remark, “Oh geez!” He was generous, compassionate, and a man of deep insights. All who came to know Tim (as anyone did who spent a week with him in challenging wilderness field work) had a true friend. Such friends are never forgotten. Remembering Tim, one of our Moosewatch leaders registered the following quote from an unknown author: “God pours life into death and death into life without spilling a drop.”
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