Facebook Leon County Commissioner Rick Minor posted this picture after Pam Hall died. He wrote, “Her love of science, facts, data and analysis was so infectious…Rest in power, Dr. Hall. You have made Leon County a better place to live. And knowing you has made me a better person and a better County Commissioner. Thank you.” Tallahassee recently lost a passionate ecologist. Pamela Hall earned a doctoral degree in Tropical Forest Ecology, but she was well-known as an expert and activist in land use planning, transportation, and wastewater in Leon County. “Just a few days before she died, she was working hard on the issue with the Northeast Parkway…Welaunee Boulevard that connects basically Thomasville Road to Welaunee. She didn't quite live to see anything final, but those of us that are still here, we're carrying on and we invoke her name every day,” laughs longtime friend Kathy Archibald, who worked alongside Hall for years on growth management issues, including a campaign known as Keep It Rural.