H2006-28-02 Pt. 1 Heidi Schoppenhorst talks about growing up in Wiseman, her father, Rick Reakoff, working as a pilot and hunting guide, Chandalar Lake, her father purchasing three cabins in Wiseman, moving to Wiseman when she was three or four, moving to Fairbanks during the winter season for the school year, being home schooled in Wiseman, Florence "Kahalabuk" Jonas, Charlie Breck, Ross Brockman, Harry Leonard, Heidi's mom renovating Florence's cabin into a chapel, the schoolhouse building and the teachers' quarters , the pipeline crews robbing any vacant place, the residents of Wiseman respecting each other's property, the Bureau of Land Management surveying land being used around cabins that people owned in the 1980s, Susan Will, the pipeline, seeing caribou migrating through the valley before the pipeline, commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, the social aspect of growing up in Wiseman, hunting and running a trap line, her brother, Jack, becoming a guide, writing an article for Outdoor Life magazine and meeting her husband, Scott, construction of the Haul Road, relocating back to Wiseman in 1989, the telegraph office building, working at Coldfoot, running a trap line and selling furs, their subsistence lifestyle, opening their lodge in 1999, winter business at the lodge, her parents agreeing to manage the phone line in Wiseman, purchasing a windmill on an 80-foot tower to generate additional power, alternative energy in Wiseman, and the increase in tourism in Wiseman.

H2006-28-02 Pt. 2 Heidi Schoppenhorst talks her growing appreciation for Wiseman and the lifestyle, learning practical skills, her sons, the unspoiled wilderness around Wiseman, the need for proper management of the land, resource management, the need to balance preservation with freedom, people enjoying the Arctic, and the area making people more self-reliant.