[env-trinity] Tim McKay

[Tom Stokely]

Tim McKay, the executive director of the Northcoast Environmental Center
(NEC) for virtually its entire 35-year existence, died at Stone Lagoon
of an apparently massive heart attack on Sunday while he was engaged in
one of his favorite activities: birding.

McKay, 59, was a relentless and inspirational defender of what he called
the Klamath-Siskiyou. A native of Stockton who spent his boyhood in
Benicia, McKay's interest in the environment bloomed during a family
trip to Alaska in the 1950s.

After coming to Arcata to study at Humboldt State, where he was a
student government vice-president and eventually received a degree in
history, McKay did a stint with the Forest Service in 1971. He also
helped pioneer an early conservation group called Save Our Siskiyous.

A federal grant allowed him to become co-director, and later executive
director (and sole employee) of the NEC. He had guided its concerns,
activities, goals and dreams ever since.

McKay leaves a daughter, Laurel, 25; son, Forrest, 21; a brother, Gerry,
his partner Michelle Marta, and numerous relatives and friends.

Plans for a celebration of his life in August are in progress.

Contact can be made through the NEC 707.822.6918 (M_F 10-6)  nec at yournec.org
<http://webmail.foggy.net/src/compose.php?send_to=nec%40yournec.org>    
yournec.org

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