(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) San Juan County Commissioner Willie Grayeyes (left) looks on as Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Commissioner Kenneth Maryboy sign an agreement to allow San Juan County to maintain tribal roads on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.
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.