About Alix Hopkins
Alix Hopkins has worked in community land conservation and related fields for more than twenty five years. However, she took a somewhat circuitous route in getting there – learning to control avalanches in Utah, working on a ranch in Wyoming and at a salmon cannery in Alaska during the 1970s. In the early 1980s, she worked in public relations, political organizing, and as a freelance photojournalist – acquiring skills which would come in handy down the road.
Finally she found her niche, beginning at the Natural Lands Trust, a regional organization headquartered near Philadelphia, in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she was founding executive director of Portland Trails, the urban, trails-oriented land trust in Portland, Maine. At the same time, she chaired the Mountain Division Alliance, which promoted the vision for a 50-mile rail-with-trail, now in the works. Her first book, Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community, was published in 2005 by the Trust for Public Land. Co-sponsors included the National Park Service Rivers & Trails Program, The Conservation Fund and The Nature Conservancy.
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She lives on a farm in Pownal, Maine, and serves as as a board member of Pownal Land Trust, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Northern Forest Canoe Trail and Two Roads Maine, and as an advisory board member of QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, Bicycle Coalition of Maine and Eastern Trail Alliance. She has served as staff, board member, volunteer and consultant for nonprofits of all sizes, and on several international exchanges. Passionate about the value her book could bring to practitioners of all levels, she spent five years creating Groundswell, and working on every aspect – from funding to researching, writing, design and marketing. She has loved every minute of the process. Well, almost every minute.
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