BOCA RATON, Fla. – Evamarie Mathaey, one of the founders of Nature Photographer Magazine, which eventually reached 20,000 subscribers worldwide, died Monday in a car crash. She was 65.

Mathaey and two others started the magazine 13 years ago with 300 subscribers. The how-to magazine, based in Lubec, Maine, features photographs and stories about nature and wildlife from around the world and is marketed to nature photographers and enthusiasts.

Editor Helen Longest-Saccone said Mathaey’s love of nature drove her to join the magazine.

The two ran the magazine after a third partner, Jeff Ripple, left 10 years ago.

Longest-Saccone said Mathaey’s conservative nature helped the magazine survive as others like it went broke.

“We never, in 13 years, had an argument,” said Longest-Saccone. “When things were more important to her, I’d give a little and she’d do the same for me.”

Mathaey, the publisher and co-editor in chief of the magazine, was born in Germany and met her husband, Ralph Mathaey, after moving to the United States.

She is survived by her husband, three children and three grandchildren.