wulik.com covers the Wulik river in Northwest Alaska and the things that depend on it: the char that overwinter in it, the zinc mine at the head of its watershed, the private road that carries the concentrate out, the port with no harbour, and the village at its mouth.
The river rises in the De Long Mountains, the western end of the Brooks Range, and reaches the Chukchi Sea near Kivalina after about a hundred miles. Along the way it passes the Ikalukrok drainage, which carries water from Red Dog, and it supplies the village at the coast with its drinking water. Those three facts put the same river at the centre of a fishery, an industrial operation and a municipal water supply.
Twelve sections, listed on the sections page, each holding two or three pieces. The archive carries every piece in one list. The front page is a selection rather than a table of contents.
Flow records are gauged by the United States Geological Survey. Fish counts come from Alaska Department of Fish and Game survey work. Discharge limits and monitoring reports sit with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Coastal erosion and relocation studies come from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and seismic records from the Alaska Earthquake Center.