Meet the Pack: Spring 2025 Contributors
Get to know some of the talented contributors behind the Spring 2025 issue of National Wildlife magazine
- By Laura Tangley and Jennifer Wehunt
- NWF News
- Mar 26, 2025
Clockwise from top left: Steven David Johnson (photo by Magdalena Johnson), Alyson Morgan (photo courtesy of Alyson Morgan), Brontë Spencer (photo by Evan Lewis), Christina M. Selby (photo by Sheena Chakeres)
We are honored to introduce a handful of the contributors who helped make our Spring 2025 issue of National Wildlife® magazine an insightful, inspiring read.
STEVEN DAVID JOHNSON became fascinated by vernal pools (“Photos: The Quiet Wonder of Vernal Pools”) in 2012 when he began photographing the seasonal wetlands: “special because they are ephemeral; they don’t last,” he says. A conservation photographer, his goal is “not just taking pretty pictures but thinking about the big picture,” using images “to protect the natural world.” See more of his work.
ALYSON MORGAN embraces a natural duality in Black herbalism (“Black Herbalism's Healing Legacy”). “That spiritual aspect is so strong,” says the writer, photographer and herbalist who relocated to Wisconsin after college at the University of California, Davis. “It’s a dichotomy I’ve always experienced, coming from academia: wanting the concrete info, but there’s an aspect of it that’s unseen.” Learn more about her work.
CHRISTINA M. SELBY is on a mission to help educate the public about plants (“Photos: The Rare but Powerful Pecos Sunflower”). “People can’t recognize plant species, but they can recognize 20 corporate logos by the time they’re 5 years old,” she says. The New Mexico writer, photographer and ecologist calls Pecos sunflowers a poster child for rare plant species. See more of her work.
BRONTË SPENCER first learned about DDT’s Arkansas past in an undergraduate biology class with John Hunt. In reporting “DDT's Long Tail in the Arkansas Delta,” she was surprised by how heavily the state had sprayed for malaria. “It makes you wonder how much of that is lingering,” says the editor and grant writer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. See more of her work.
