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The Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge located in Ulster County, New York, USA. Formerly the Galeville Military Airport, it was decommissioned in 1994 and turned over to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999. It serves as a waypoint for grassland-dependent migratory birds. ==History== The refuge first became federal property in the early 1940s, when the Army bought what was then swampland and filled it in with soil from the nearby flood plains to build Galeville Army Air Base to train pilots as a result of World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 It stopped using the base years after the war, in the early 1970s and in later years it would be used by the nearby United States Military Academy. FBI agents also trained there.〔Rothbaum, Rebecca; June 20, 2002; "(Wildlife lives on in Shawangunk Grasslands )"; ''Poughkeepsie Journal''; retrieved July 18, 2007.〕 as did the U.S. Marshals Service.〔CCP, 3-6. "The recent past of the refuge has included a history as a farm field, use as an airport, and a role as a training location for U. S. Marshals."〕 In 1994 the Department of Defense decided it no longer needed the property. Five years later, it was conveyed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which had wanted to protect the land as one of the state's top ten areas for grassland-dependent migratory birds. It is today managed as a subunit of the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, to the south. Recently the FWS has begun to mow and deshrub the that make up the refuge's core grasslands. This prevents the grasslands from returning to wooded swamp. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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