Meet the Pack: Summer 2025 Contributors
Get to know some of the talented contributors behind the Summer 2025 issue of National Wildlife magazine
- By Laura Tangley, Delaney McPherson and Jennifer Wehunt
- NWF News
- Jun 25, 2025
Clockwise from top left: Deirdre Denali Rosenberg (photo by Jon Rosenberg), Jessica Snyder Sachs (photo courtesy of Jessica Snyder Sachs), Gretchen Kay Stuart (photo courtesy of Gretchen Kay Stuart), Barry Yeoman (photo by Efthimios Kalos)
We are honored to introduce a handful of the contributors who helped make our Summer 2025 issue of National Wildlife® magazine an insightful, inspiring read.
DEIRDRE DENALI ROSENBERG planned her journey through the Madrean Sky Islands (“The Spectacular Madrean Sky Islands”) hoping to flex her mountaineering, photography and naturalism muscles, and to spend time in an alpine environment. “I spend countless hours, days and months above tree lines,” she says. “I pull all my inspiration from peaceful, quiet moments up there.” See more of .
JESSICA SNYDER SACHS, a longtime contributor to this magazine, “relived the heartbreak of seeing both humans and wildlife suffer the consequences of extreme weather” while reporting “The Myth of Climate Havens.” After personally experiencing “back-to-back ‘100-year’ storms in Vermont,” the science journalist adds, “It’s mind boggling to hear politicians still denying the crisis and the need for immediate action.”
GRETCHEN KAY STUART first learned about the 2024 brown pelican die-off (“The Brown Pelican Brief”) when she encountered carcasses on a California beach while scouting for another assignment. “It saddens me that, as humans, we often don’t act until a crisis is affecting us directly,” says the Emerging League member of the International League of Conservation Photographers. See more of .
BARRY YEOMAN has covered an astounding array of subjects during his nearly four decades in journalism—from local, state and national politics to Christian seminaries and back-of-town New Orleans blues joints. He particularly enjoyed working on “Humans Are Not the Only Animals That Use Names.” “Being able to report on animal communication, rather than politics, has been such a balm for my soul,” he says. See more of .
