Book I: watershed -- The trout pool paradox -- The edgelands of Alfaro -- Foundation stones -- Subdue the Earth -- The cheering rays of civilization -- Fire on the mountain -- Ydawaix and Oldphogiz -- There but for fortune -- Dark Satanic mills -- The high cost of brass -- Book II: back to nature -- Foundlings of the Finny family -- The magic bullet -- Are locusts kosher? Adventures in entomology -- The pilgrim road -- Toxic politics -- Row v. Wade -- Reading the water -- The call of the wild -- Book III: listening to the river -- Stakeholders -- Fer fightin' over -- Floodwaters -- Zero discharge -- Old and in the way -- The ideology of salmon -- A fully fought case -- Riverness.