(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) In this 2014 file photograph, crowd listens to then-San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman in Blanding's Centennial Park before an ATV ride into Recapture Canyon, which was closed to motorized use by the Bureau of Land Management in 2007.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.