A connectivity Bottleneck and Road Crossing

1. Birds excepted, wildlife lack this overhead perspective. To them, approaching and crossing a bottleneck, like Shutevilles Hill, is a series of
compounding reactions. For many species, this means sticking to the woods and wetlands (light green) and avoiding houses, business and other
buildings (orange) and often shying away from the more open environments and disturbances of residential, commercial, agricultural areas (light
gray). At Shutesville, wildlife dispersing to and from the larger conserved and protected habitats (dark green) of the Northern Green Mountains
and the more westerly Worcesters are funneled into a relatively short stretch (yellow) along route 100 where both sides of the road support
contiguous forest and wetlands. Here wildlife tends to cross and approach the roadside with more frequency. On top of these longer dispersal
movements (represented in brown arrows), is a layer of movement associated with home-range usage. Some individuals reside near the crossing
and utilize the roadside habitats during day-to-day and seasonal movements (represented in red arrows).