CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia is the first state in the country with viewfinders for people with color blindness at every state park. All 43 state parks have installed these special lenses from EnChroma. Ethan Howes has been a park ranger for years and is red-green color-blind himself. After seeing some articles about the EnChroma viewfinder, he knew Virginia needed it. “It’s like taking a highlighter and highlighting everything," Howes said. Howes is a ranger at Natural Tunnel State Park in Scott County.  He said it was a few years ago when he read about two viewfinders being installed in Tennessee state parks. “I was like, ‘You know what? I want that, I want that at Natural Tunnel,’” he said. He said he contacted those parks in Tennessee, got in touch with someone at EnChroma, and pitched it to his program manager. Now, there’s one in every single state park in Virginia, the only state in the country. "I never thought I would do anything that has such a grand scale impact," Howes said. "It’s a little unreal.” In his everyday life, he said it’s tough to pick out clothing and, at work, it can be hard to identify specific animals, or point guests in the direction of the best spot to see leaves changing in the fall. According to the National Institutes of Health, one in 12 men are red-green color-blind, and one in 200 women. Howes said the first time he looked through the viewfinder, it took a few minutes for his brain to adjust, which is normal. But then, everything became more vibrant. A little closer to home, Dustin Yates has been working in the Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield County for about six years. His dad has red-green color blindness.   “The longer he looked through them, he could see more and more as he kept going,” he said.   Yates said his dad was one of the first people to try the new viewfinders.   “Probably a highlight in everybody’s career in state parks was just seeing some of those people’s reactions," he said. "They have never seen color and all of the sudden being able to see the colorful kayaks and lifejackets out on the lake." Installing the viewfinders was funded by the parks’ round-up program, where customers can round up and donate on any purchases they make in the parks. Yates said the fund helps break down barriers so anyone can come to the park. “We want everybody to be able to enjoy our parks here in Virginia," he said. EnChroma has also provided the parks with special glasses guests can wear that mimic the same effect the viewfinders have.