(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tower technicians Nathan Berry, above, and Jory Christiansen work to bring internet to students in the Navajo Nation community of Halchita on Dec. 8, 2020. The tower was installed this fall with CARES Act funds and will receive a signal from a larger tower on distant Raplee Ridge.
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.