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Andy Hinickle is Ä¢¹½Av Great Lake’s Senior Manager of Conservation. Hinickle leads efforts to design and implement wetland restoration projects in Ä¢¹½Av’s priority regions across the Great Lakes, while supporting Ä¢¹½Av’s policy and engagement teams in building a diverse constituency that defends and creates strong public policy across the Great Lakes region. His work involves close collaboration with public agencies, tribes, NGO partners, Ä¢¹½Av’s network of chapters and volunteers.  These projects drive towards Ä¢¹½Av’s ambitious goals for the region to recover breeding marsh bird populations while improving water quality and building climate resiliency.

Prior to joining the Ä¢¹½Av Great Lakes team, Hinickle spent over 10 years as Ä¢¹½Av New York’s Conservation Biologist. Located at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, Hinickle served as the lead on Ä¢¹½Av New York’s Golden-winged Warbler and young forest conservation efforts, Ä¢¹½Av New York’s Great Lakes Conservation efforts, and lent his expertise to other priorities ranging from mature forests to grasslands.  Hinickle came to Ä¢¹½Av in 2011 from the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, where he was employed as a term Wildlife Biologist.  Prior to that, he held technician positions with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, monitoring, restoring and maintaining a variety of habitat types on public and private lands.  Hinickle has a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.