But there was always movement – for potlatching or trading or intermarriage, or along waterways for fishing.
The Orinoco and its tributaries long have served as vast waterways for the indigenous inhabitants of the Venezuelan interior.
Numerous studies have determined that high acidity has been killing off fish in Adirondack waterways for many years.
Yet they use the nation's roads for trucking, our waterways for shipping, our bridges and city streets and airports.
Avalon Waterways, for example, reports that bookings are much higher than this time last year for its sailings on the Danube, Rhine and other European rivers.
Japan, too mountainous to rely on roads for mass transport, also relied on internal and coastal waterways for shipping from early in its history.
An extraordinary law enforcement presence will be massed along New York City's waterways for OpSail 2000 on the Fourth of July.
In the mid-80s, Meeker created a uniform signage system for the country's rivers and other navigable waterways for the Army Corps of Engineers.
He said it was his job and his sense of duty that prompted him to chase leads and scour the area's waterways for a missing marine.
Also, as the police began patrolling beneath bridges and beside waterways for security reasons, they disturbed camps where homeless people lived, forcing them into public view.
British Waterways, for instance, has reopened its 2,000-mile 2,000-mile canetworkr bofting, and about two-thirds of its 1,500 towpaths.
