(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) A flare burns off stranded natural gas near the Navajo Nation community of Montezuma Creek, Utah, on March 8, 2020. A pending agreement with a gas plant near Moab could limit the need for flaring on tribal lands near the Four Corners.
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.