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A8 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2019 Grand Canyon celebrates 100 years as a national park By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The fi rst Euro- pean American who reached the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon marveled at what was before him: an astounding sys- tem of canyons, profound fi ssures and slen- der spires that seemingly tottered from their bases. The scenery wasn’t enough to con- vince Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives that any- one would visit after his group that set out in a steamboat wrapped up an expedition in 1858. “Ours has been the fi rst and, doubtless, will be the last party of whites to visit this profi tless locality,” he wrote. “It seems intended by nature that the Colorado River along the greater portion of its lonely and majestic way shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed.” That clearly wasn’t the way things worked out, and the Grand Canyon in 2019 will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a national park. Despite a federal government shut- down that has closed some other national parks, the Grand Canyon has remained open because Arizona decided to supply money needed to keep trails, shuttles and restrooms open. It now draws more than 6 million tour- ists a year who peer over the popular South Rim into the gorge a mile deep, navigate river rapids, hike the trails and camp under the stars. Emery Cowan/Arizona Daily Sun Tourists Joseph Lin, Ning Chao, center, and Linda Wang, left, pose for a selfi e at Grand Canyon National Park in 2015. Early explorers Early explorers came on boat, foot and horseback, often with the help of Native American guides. The wealthy traveled by stagecoach in a two-day trip from Flagstaff to the southernmost point on the canyon’s South Rim in the 1880s. The fi rst passenger train rolled in from Williams in 1901, but the railroad was more interested in mining copper than car- rying tourists. The automobile became the more popular way to reach the Grand Can- yon in the 1930s. Early entrepreneurs charged $1 to hike down the Bright Angel Trail used by the Havasupai people whose current-day reser- vation lies in the depths of the Grand Can- yon, developed camping spots and built hotels. Tourists paid for drinking water, to use outhouses and for curios in a tent pitched at the South Rim. Ralph Cameron, a prospector for whom the Navajo Nation community of Cameron is named, was one of the major opponents of naming the Grand Canyon a national park because he saw how much money could be made from tourism. President Woodrow Wilson signed legis- lation to create the park in 1919, but Teddy Roosevelt is credited for its early preser- AP Photo/Julie Jacobson The Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona covered in morning sunlight. vation as a game reserve and a national monument. He famously said: “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” Centennial events will include Roos- evelt impersonators, a historical sympo- sium, a living history week and efforts to get visitors beyond the South Rim by show- casing lesser-known sites on social media. The park’s actual birthday is Feb. 26, when a celebration is scheduled at the South Rim, with other events at other locations pro- grammed for later in the year. Vanessa Ceja Cervantes, one of the cen- tennial coordinators, said the park will broadcast ranger talks, the founder’s day event and other virtual tours throughout the year. “A lot of our visitors come for the day and they’re drawn here for this amazing landscape,” she said. “But we really want to give them reasons to stay, to learn about the geology, the natural resources, cultural or historic because there’s something here for everyone.” Visitors might even learn about the Apollo 11 astronauts who trained at the Grand Canyon, a spotted skunk there who does a handstand when it feels threatened, a commercial airline crash that spurred the creation of the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration or the story of a heart-shaped rock embedded in wall for a hotel waitress. Home to tribes Before Grand Canyon became a national park, the land was home to and visited fre- quently by Native American tribes. As the story goes, Spanish explor- ers reached the canyon in the 1540s, led by Hopi guides. They descended into the canyon but misjudged its depth and vast- ness, turning back before they could reach the Colorado River. Their reports likely deterred others from exploring the region for centuries. Gertrude Smith, who works in the cul- tural offi ce for the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Camp Verde, said tribes continue to revere the Grand Canyon as a place of emergence and where they forage for plants and nuts, and hunted before it became outlawed. “People do forget the Native people were the fi rst people to dwell in these places and use the resources,” she said. Wayne Ranney, the immediate past pres- ident of the Grand Canyon Historical Soci- ety, moved to Phantom Ranch to work as a backcountry ranger in 1975, a job that would create a bond with his paternal grandfather, who fi rst visited Grand Can- yon National Park in 1919. He worked for the railroad and could get a round-trip ticket for $5, Ranney said. In the years after World War II ended, the National Park Service began to mod- ernize places like the Grand Canyon. 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