(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Ryan Bundy, son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, rides an ATV into Recapture Canyon, which has been closed to motorized use since 2007, after a call-to-action by then-San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman on Saturday, May 10, 2014, north of Blanding.
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.