Zak 🦦 Podmore
@zakpodmore.bsky.social
Water, labor, outdoors / author of Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River / formerly at The Salt Lake Tribune, Canoe & Kayak magazine / zakpodmore.com
Thanks to @morgansjogren.bsky.social for the recent substack alerting me to the fact that our books (and lots of other Torrey House Press titles) are on the menu at Hells Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thanks to @morgansjogren.bsky.social for the recent substack alerting me to the fact that our books (and lots of other Torrey House Press titles) are on the menu at Hells Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah.
It’s like Qanon but true. A trueanon 👁️
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s like Qanon but true. A trueanon 👁️
I often see Energy Fuels' uranium trucks speeding through Bluff. Great reporting from the great @abecenti.bsky.social
Doubts persist about deal to allow uranium trucks on the Navajo Nation
People who live along the uranium transport route say they want assurances that they are not at risk.
www.azcentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I often see Energy Fuels' uranium trucks speeding through Bluff. Great reporting from the great @abecenti.bsky.social
They’re back in southern Utah for the fiftieth anniversary
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
They’re back in southern Utah for the fiftieth anniversary
I don’t know what to do with the knowledge that both of my books initially sold better than The Great American Novel
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I don’t know what to do with the knowledge that both of my books initially sold better than The Great American Novel
Ryan Davis assuming a proper wide stance with the Roadhouse Band. SLC, Nov 2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Ryan Davis assuming a proper wide stance with the Roadhouse Band. SLC, Nov 2025
Great piece on the inspiring return of beavers to Glen Canyon 🦫 insideclimatenews.org/news/2710202...
As Lake Powell Recedes, Beavers are Building Back - Inside Climate News
The decline of the reservoir threatens the water and electricity for 40 million people, but is resurfacing vast canyons and lush riversides that the aquatic rodents engineer into robust habitats for m...
insideclimatenews.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great piece on the inspiring return of beavers to Glen Canyon 🦫 insideclimatenews.org/news/2710202...
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As Lake Powell recedes, canyons once underwater are full of life again. Beavers are building dams and shaping ponds that create space for plants, fish, and frogs to thrive.
📰 Alex Hager for @npr.org via KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-10...
📰 Alex Hager for @npr.org via KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-10...
As Lake Powell recedes, beavers are building back
Drought and steady demand along the Colorado River are draining the nation's second-largest reservoir. Land that was once submerged is now full of beavers and thriving ecosystems.
www.kunc.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As Lake Powell recedes, canyons once underwater are full of life again. Beavers are building dams and shaping ponds that create space for plants, fish, and frogs to thrive.
📰 Alex Hager for @npr.org via KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-10...
📰 Alex Hager for @npr.org via KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-10...
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A12. #ParkChat Book Club is reading Confluence by @zakpodmore.bsky.social. The book is more than just a story of the Colorado River and its tributaries. It touches on Indigenous stories, family, water rights, and adventures. Our second meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 5 PM Pacific. DM me for deets.
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A12. #ParkChat Book Club is reading Confluence by @zakpodmore.bsky.social. The book is more than just a story of the Colorado River and its tributaries. It touches on Indigenous stories, family, water rights, and adventures. Our second meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 5 PM Pacific. DM me for deets.
Post-tornado paddle
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Post-tornado paddle
Spotted from Bluff, UT
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spotted from Bluff, UT
“A lake full of boats is better than a canyon full of air.”
— @brenorbrophy.com, channeling Floyd Dominy
— @brenorbrophy.com, channeling Floyd Dominy
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“A lake full of boats is better than a canyon full of air.”
— @brenorbrophy.com, channeling Floyd Dominy
— @brenorbrophy.com, channeling Floyd Dominy
Got to see Neil and MJ in the last three days, and even MJ playing Neil.
It’s gonna take a lot of love.
It’s gonna take a lot of love.
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Got to see Neil and MJ in the last three days, and even MJ playing Neil.
It’s gonna take a lot of love.
It’s gonna take a lot of love.
I called Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang a young-adult novel and they printed it in the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | The influence of Edward Abbey’s ‘Monkey Wrench Gang’ as it turns 50
Annie Proulx and others discuss how the classic novel about a quartet of environmentalist outlaws has aged
www.washingtonpost.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I called Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang a young-adult novel and they printed it in the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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We’ve been closer to minimum probable than mid the last few years. Just sayin’ 👀
Reclamation's updated reservoir projections were released today. Lake Powell could hit all-time lows next summer, threatening hydropower generation at the Glen Canyon Dam.
August 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We’ve been closer to minimum probable than mid the last few years. Just sayin’ 👀
Reclamation's updated reservoir projections were released today. Lake Powell could hit all-time lows next summer, threatening hydropower generation at the Glen Canyon Dam.
August 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reclamation's updated reservoir projections were released today. Lake Powell could hit all-time lows next summer, threatening hydropower generation at the Glen Canyon Dam.
Low water levels in Lake Powell allowed invasive, predatory smallmouth bass to pass through the Glen Canyon Dam and into the Grand Canyon several years ago, threatening endangered humpback chub. Warmer releases from the dam have also likely benefitted chub, according to new study. 1/2
August 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Low water levels in Lake Powell allowed invasive, predatory smallmouth bass to pass through the Glen Canyon Dam and into the Grand Canyon several years ago, threatening endangered humpback chub. Warmer releases from the dam have also likely benefitted chub, according to new study. 1/2
Incredible journey
After decades of anti-dam protest from Indigenous tribes, the mighty Klamath River is now flowing free.
This summer, 15 teens kayaked from its headwaters near the Cascade Mountains in Oregon to its mouth on the Pacific coast of California.
This summer, 15 teens kayaked from its headwaters near the Cascade Mountains in Oregon to its mouth on the Pacific coast of California.
15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Incredible journey
Thanks to @azfamily.com for asking me to talk about design flaws in the Glen Canyon Dam and the ecological rebirth of Glen Canyon www.youtube.com/watch?v=yur0...
Life after Lake Powell: Is dead pool coming soon? | Sonoran Sky Podcast
YouTube video by Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5)
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanks to @azfamily.com for asking me to talk about design flaws in the Glen Canyon Dam and the ecological rebirth of Glen Canyon www.youtube.com/watch?v=yur0...
"wherever little children are hungry and cry
wherever people ain't free
wherever men are fighting for their rights
that's where I'm a'gonna be, ma,
that's where I'm a'gonna be"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBU...
wherever people ain't free
wherever men are fighting for their rights
that's where I'm a'gonna be, ma,
that's where I'm a'gonna be"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBU...
Tom Joad, Pt. 2
YouTube video by Woody Guthrie - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"wherever little children are hungry and cry
wherever people ain't free
wherever men are fighting for their rights
that's where I'm a'gonna be, ma,
that's where I'm a'gonna be"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBU...
wherever people ain't free
wherever men are fighting for their rights
that's where I'm a'gonna be, ma,
that's where I'm a'gonna be"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBU...
Thanks to Out West Books for the kind review in @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/07/27/o...
July 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanks to Out West Books for the kind review in @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/07/27/o...