About Carolyn

Carolyn Keith Hopper is a mother, grandmother, and environmental advocate, who writes about connecting adults and children with nature. She lives in southwest Montana, where the weather and landscape of the Rocky Mountains inspire her writing. An avid fly-fisher and hiker, she has loved the outdoors since childhood, when her parents would take her on outings on the Concord River and entertain her with stories of the mythical West. She has contributed numerous articles to Outside Bozeman and Rocky Mountain Gardening.

It is through the process of writing both River Shadows: A Passage from Head to Heart and Fishing with My Father: A Daughter’s Search for Legacy that she found her way to understanding her relationships with both her mother and father after their passing. She’s grateful, in the case of her letters to her father, that she had his letters and the letters written to him by his parents for the glimpses into parts of her dad’s life before she was part of his.

One recent reader of Fishing with My Father had this to say:

“Your efforts to connect with your father through fly fishing and your detailed and evocative descriptions of the rivers and surroundings, the birds, the wild flowers, and the seasons blend together so well. It is nature and personal writing at its finest.”

Paul Feyling, award winning documentary filmmaker of

“A Naturalist in the Rainforest.”

Fishing with My Father: A Daughter’s Search for Legacy is her second book.

Carolyn is a member of the following organizations that support the wild and beautiful in nature: Audubon Society (both national and local), Trout Unlimited, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Southern Utah Wilderness Association, Gallatin Valley Land Trust (leading wildflower hikes locally, Pacific Wild, Greater Yellowstone Coalition. She supports work by the Nature Conservancy, and the Trust for Public Land.

She and her husband, Dan, created wildflowerhikesmontana.com so that many may enjoy viewing and learning about wildflowers on our local trails.