Twenty-seven pieces across twelve sections. This is the complete list; the front page is a selection from it.
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A river clear enough to see the bottom of, and that is the point | The Wulik rises in the De Long Mountains and runs to the Chukchi Sea, and its clarity is the baseline every argument about the watershed refers back to. | Cold Water |
| The mountains that make the water cold | The De Long Mountains are the western end of the Brooks Range, and they set the temperature and the sediment load of everything below. | Cold Water |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A char that has to come back to fresh water to survive winter | Dolly Varden feed at sea and return to overwinter in specific river reaches, which makes those reaches the whole population's bottleneck. | Char |
| The fish decide the year's shape | Subsistence harvest is organised around when the char are where, and that timing is the practical calendar of the region. | Char |
| Salmon are here too, and further north each decade | Chum salmon use the same systems and their northern distribution has been shifting, which is documented rather than anecdotal. | Char |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| Gravel is the only foundation that works | Structures are built on thick gravel pads to keep heat away from the permafrost beneath, and the pad is usually the largest single cost. | Gravel |
| Warm ground is a structural failure | Thawing permafrost loses bearing capacity, so a building that was stable for decades can move in a few seasons. | Gravel |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| The sea used to freeze before the autumn storms | Shorefast ice formed early enough to protect the coast through the storm season. It now forms later, and the storms arrive at open water. | Ice |
| Coastal erosion is measured in metres per year here | Erosion rates along this coast are documented annually, and they are the number the relocation case rests on. | Ice |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A private road built for one customer | The DeLong Mountain Transportation System road runs from the mine to the coast, and it exists for concentrate haulage rather than for public access. | The Road |
| A gravel road is also a dispersal mechanism | Dust from haul roads is monitored because it settles on tundra and snow well beyond the corridor itself. | The Road |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| One of the largest zinc mines in the world, at the head of a river | Red Dog is a major zinc producer sitting in the Wulik's upper watershed, which is why water quality here is monitored as closely as it is. | Mine |
| A mine on land held by a regional corporation | The operating agreement between the regional corporation and the operator is the reason the mine exists in this form, and royalties flow through it. | Mine |
| Containment is the whole engineering problem | Tailings and water management in a place that freezes and thaws is the part of the operation that has to work for longer than the mine runs. | Mine |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A port with no harbour, so the ships stay offshore | There is no deep water at the coast, so concentrate is lightered out to vessels anchored well offshore. | Port |
| The shipping season is about a hundred days | Ice closes the coast for most of the year, so a year's production moves in one short open-water window. | Port |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| The discharge standard is the operating constraint | Permitted discharge limits and the monitoring around them are the terms on which the operation continues, and they have been litigated. | Permits |
| Somebody measures this river continuously | Long-run monitoring datasets exist for this watershed, which is unusual and is why the arguments here can be specific. | Permits |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A village on a barrier island, and the island is narrowing | Kivalina sits on a barrier island between a lagoon and the Chukchi Sea, and the land available to it has been shrinking for decades. | Kivalina |
| Relocation has been studied since the 1990s | Multiple agency studies have examined moving the village, and the record of those studies is itself the clearest account of why it has not happened. | Kivalina |
| Where the school goes decides where the village goes | In a community this size the school is the largest building and the largest investment, so siting it is effectively siting the settlement. | Kivalina |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| The second largest earthquake ever recorded | The Good Friday earthquake of 27 March 1964 reached magnitude 9.2 and reshaped coastline hundreds of miles away. | Ground Motion |
| The Aleutian trench is why this happens | The Aleutian subduction zone produces the largest events, and the monitoring network across the state exists because of it. | Ground Motion |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| Winter is when the country opens up | Frozen ground and rivers make travel easier in winter than in summer, which inverts the assumption most visitors arrive with. | Overland |
| Freeze-up and break-up are the weeks nobody moves | The transitions between ice and open water are the periods when neither boat nor snowmachine works, and they are lengthening. | Overland |
| Piece | What it covers | Section |
|---|---|---|
| A 1971 act settled land claims by creating corporations | The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished aboriginal title and conveyed land and money to newly created regional and village corporations. | Land Claims |
| The regional corporation is a landowner and an employer | NANA holds land across the region and is a party to the mine agreement, which is why corporate structure and subsistence land use are the same conversation here. | Land Claims |