Ray Erickson is retired from SAS Canada in Toronto where he worked in product distribution. He is a photographer of the natural world whose work was influential in the process of creating the Eno River State Park in North Carolina before moving to the North Country. He has been a board member of the Indian Creek Nature Center in Canton. Ray has conducted a nightly survey of moths of the region for several years documenting them photographicaly. As a manager of the Johnsonburg Butterfly Garden he has also photographed many of our Northeastern species of these Lepidoptera.