Globe and Mail: The boreal forest occupies nearly half of Canada’s land mass, yet it’s more significant to national myth and memory – as home to the coureurs de bois and the hewers of wood – than it is to any discussion of a shared future. But the blanket of woodlands that runs all the way from Yukon to the coast of Labrador may play a huge role in the battle to protect the planet from climate change. As one of the last great intact forests on Earth, along with the Russian taiga and the Amazon …