(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Davina Smith, executive director of SLC Air Protectors, stands near the Colorado River on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, with a medicine bundle of plants she gathered in Bears Ears National Monument. Smith plans to run the bundle 320 miles from the Bears Ears Buttes to Salt Lake City.
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.