![It's not hard to see why a lone jack pine like this one inspired Tom Thomson.](https://i0.wp.com/forkonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/lone-pine-es-jpg.jpg?resize=584%2C328&ssl=1)
It’s not hard to see why a lone jack pine like this one inspired Tom Thomson.
In the pitch dark of an Algonquin Park night, a small light cuts the gloom. A park naturalist is collecting newly hatched turtles to protect them from predators. Further up the path, we had seen the destroyed leathery shells discarded after a hungry raccoon or fox had dug them up. He hopes to save these.