It's not a very big advantage in the woods. I'm doing amateur astronomy for the past 30 years. The moving star map is naturally imprinted in my brain. And I can reliably identify almost any visible star by just a handful of nearby stars visible through the very small openings in tree tops. So, I can tell the North direction using any visible stars. However I've realized that it works well only for the northern hemisphere, preferably at +55 latitude, and solely because of 20 years of watching the sky from that old home place. IOW, the other methods are still important to know.