(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) San Juan County residents were presented with proposals of the newly redrawn county commission and school board districts during hearings in Monticello and Bluff, November 16, 2017. The redistricting proposals redrew voting districts to ensure significant American Indian majorities in two of three County Commission districts and on four of five school board voting districts as the result of a January 2012 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the Navajo Nation.
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.