I have a lot of difficulty making up my mind on this subject. On one hand, I do not often go in the forest and I have never used it as an inspiration for my writing before. On the other hand, I do see how forest culture manifests itself in my daily life. I think about the Chasse-Galerie, the campfires and, also, the beers brewed by the microbrewery Le coureur des bois. For these reasons, I cannot deny that the portrait described by Robert Fulford in his lecture of 1992 is accurate. He gave excellent examples of Canadian artists and artisans that used our landscapes as muses to express their…