Meet the Pack: Fall 2024 Contributors
Get to know some of the talented contributors behind the Fall 2024 issue of National Wildlife magazine
- By Laura Tangley and Jennifer Wehunt
- NWF News
- Sep 26, 2024
Clockwise from top left: Allison Torres Burtka (photo by Darrell Miho), Stephenie Livingston (photo by Paula Ezelle), Taylar Stagner (photo courtesy of Taylar Stagner), Jaime Rojo (photo by Luis Antonio Rojas)
We are honored to introduce a handful of the contributors who helped make our Fall 2024 issue of National Wildlife® magazine an insightful, inspiring read.
ALLISON TORRES BURTKA, a Michigan writer and editor, was fascinated when sandhill cranes appeared in her Metro Detroit backyard. When she heard that thousands gathered at New Mexico’s Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in winter (“Maintaining a Sandhill Crane Oasis in the Desert”), she jumped at a chance to visit. “They are giant, elegant birds, and seeing hundreds was an unforgettable experience.” See more of her work.
STEPHENIE LIVINGSTON, a Florida native, had only seen the state’s largest wetlands from the highway before reporting “Another Reason to Worry About Burmese Pythons? This Parasite.” “Realizing how vast it still is, even with so many things we’ve done to it—sea-level rise, pollution—it gives you hope,” she says. As for the resident pythons, “It’s important to emphasize they didn’t ask to be here.” See more of her work.
JAIME ROJO, a photographer based in Madrid, frequently finds himself on assignment back in Mexico, where he lived for 17 years and shot “A Monarch Migration Timed to Mexico’s Day of the Dead.” “What’s beautiful about the monarchs is they migrate through the three countries of North America,” he says. “In very polarizing times, the monarchs help us connect with nature, unifying us under the same goal.” See more of his work.
TAYLAR STAGNER, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma who is of Eastern Shoshone descent, reports on Indigenous affairs for Grist. Growing up in Riverton, Wyoming, she says she was always aware of Jason Baldes and Patti Harris (“Forming a Bond: Behind the Scenes of 'A Buffalo Story'”): “They’re bridging the gap between people and the natural world, making it more like it was before colonization.”
