(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Heap leach pads at the Lisbon Valley Mining Company's copper mine facility in eastern San Juan County in Oct. 2019. The company has not paid county property taxes since 2014, and owes $1.4 million in back taxes, interest and fees.
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.