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.
The road to the entrance to mount evans is 15 miles long. The first 7 miles is an uphill climb but not great and few curves. Lichen is an association of fungus and green alga or cyanobacterium. Lichen, therefore, is really a compound creature. This association is called âsymbiosisâ. The fungus is a network of small fungal root-hairs (called âhyphaeâ) that mechanically protects the algae which, in turn, produces carbohydrates, organic nitrogen and vitamins, thus providing the fungus with growth materials. In this manner, both organisms benefit. There are over 1,400 different species of lichens, so I will not make an attempt to see how many I can photograph. Lichens eventually die and, when they do, their decomposition creates a weak solution of carbonic acid that eats into the rock.