Cape Lookout NS: western Shackleford Banks; take ferry to public dock on island; walk sandy trail into interior and head SE to high dunes where you can see to the SE a fenced area of about 50x50 m with posts every 10 feet. Plot is in exclosure in lower wet area.
plot is in 50x50 m horse exclosure created by park service; formerly heavily grazed by wild horses which may have kept the adjacent shrubland from expanding into wet area from the north; the portion of the wet area outside the exclosure is grazed and about 0.5 m tall
