Greg Hickman, the founder and chairman of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, California, and Vietnam War veteran, died unexpectedly while fly-fishing on May 15.
Hickman was “enjoying his favorite hobby … at the time of his passing,” Debbie McGuire, co-founder and executive director of the wildlife rescue nonprofit, said in a statement. “The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center is Greg’s lifelong project, and we plan on keeping his legacy going on for many years.”
McGuire told The Epoch Times Hickman died of a heart attack in Montana.
Greg Hickman was the first in California to receive his license as a wildlife rehabilitator in 1972. He started a wildlife rehabilitation center—known as the Alliance for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education (AWRE)—while he was working for the North Orange County School Districts Regional Occupation Program in Anaheim until the school district sold the property….