Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College) has a regional campus in Duncan that offers programs and courses in university transfer, access, trades and applied technology, health and human services, and career and academic preparation.he Coast Salish men and women of the Cowichan Tribes are makers of the world famous Cowichan Sweaters. Duncan is home to the BC Forest Discovery Centre. Before the CanadaâUnited States softwood lumber dispute, Duncan and the whole Cowichan Valley were a thriving lumber centre in British Columbia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Letharia vulpina, commonly known as the wolf lichen (although the species name vulpina, from vulpine relates to the fox), is a fruticose lichenized species of fungus in the family Parmeliaceae.
Like the slime molds, lichens are a hybrid; a symbiotic relationship between an algae and a fungus. There is a terrible joke in the naturalist community, and it goes something like this: a lichen is a fungus and an algae, and theyâre likinâ one another.ost of the fungi in this relationship are not able to survive without an algal partner. Plants have a superpower that animals and fungi do not have: they can make their own food through photosynthesis.