TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 3月10日 00時14分

If you want strangers to ask to take a photo with you, walk around in a park ranger’s uniform. As chief ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, Matthew Vandzura, 51, knows this well. Even on a winter day, with snow on the ground and only a few dozen #tourists at the popular Mather Point outlook, the jovial keeper of the canyon is in high demand. His celebrity may be local, writes Lily Rothman, but that spotlight has been shining a little more brightly lately, with the recent centennial celebration of the signing of the act that created #GrandCanyon National Park. Of course, the canyon itself is much older—to the tune of maybe 6 million years—so a hundred might sound small. But its place as a national institution is grounded in that moment, and what it looks like after the next 100 years is, in part, in the hands of people like Vandzura, who care for the land #America has decided is most worth caring for. A record 6.38 million people visited last year. “It’s well known that Americans love their national parks,” Vandzura says. Indeed, a record 6.38 million people visited last year. “We’re a culture that likes the idea of wide-open spaces.” But that appeal presents a challenge: how to keep natural beauty intact, and visitors in awe, even amid the crowds. Read more at the link in bio. Photograph by @jesserieser for TIME

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