Hi ggorgeman
Thanks for reaching out.
All the content for the magazine is provided by volunteers and forum members are 100% encouraged to contribute content. The idea is that it is a magazine written by bushwalkers for bushwalkers.
I am adding new features and tools to bushwalk.com. The goal is to have a few key areas.
The forum that we know

Walks
https://bushwalk.com/search/?display=mapMagazine
https://bushwalk.com/magazine/Learn to bushwalk-type articles
https://bushwalk.com/article/Coming soon, we will have an app that will pull together the walks and learn to walk articles.
My hope is to keep it all free for end users. I'm not sure I will be able to do that with the app, but I'm working on it.
I hope to encourage people who can afford to contribute financially to do so with simple one-off or regular contributions. That might be a next-year thing.
Also always keen for people to volunteer their time to help in any of the areas, or simply make suggestions.
(I have been unwell the last few years so not in a position to provide good support so stuff is taking way longer than I would like)
So in terms of financial contributions, are you thinking of something like a levelled 'badge' that people could use on the forum to show the level or frequency of contributions?