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Adjacent to Wainwright Dunes Ecological Reserve; central eastern side of David Lake, NE of E/W fenceline, 1.2 km ESE of peninsula monument; Muhlasp-020815b; (centre) 52º34.900'N / 110º35.885'W [±0.025''] [GPS]; UTM27: (centre) 12N 0527100E 5825500N [±30m] [map]; drawdown nearshore alkaline barrens of David Lake with semiopen to semiclosed heavily grazed low graminoid meadow of 20-50% Muhlenbergia asperifolia - SOIL (Alkaline); 5-20% Agropyron trachycaulum subsp. trachycaulum - Agropyron trachycaulum subsp. subsecundum - LITTER; 1-5% Hordeum jubatum - Potentilla anserina - Juncus balticus; <=1% Symphoricarpos occidentalis - Cirsium flodmanii - Gentianella amarella - Chenopodium pratericola - Antennaria pauciflora; note: associated with Aster pauciflorus (020815a) and Carex parryana (020710b 020710c); this habitat is immediately adjacent to lake side of thicket fringe which is the high water level of the normal shore level, but now is very dry due to drought drawdown; forms a zone 70 m wide and semicontinuously along shore for over 100 m