“What’s more,” said Kollmeyer, “our artistic dioramas are accurate reflections of animal habitats and are vital teaching tools of conservation. Viewers can learn about wildlife management part that the artists and ethical hunters play in preserving wild places and wild animals for future generations.”
It is a recognized fact, humans have been hunters since the beginning of time.
Pictographs, petroglyphs, and other artifacts around the world document the dependence on animals for their survival. Locally, a wide range of pictographs in Central Washington, including Lake Chelan and the Columbia River Regions, captured visual examples of the relationship between early hunters in the area and native wildlife. The inaugural art show at Nature’s Window gallery features dramatic pictograph watercolors by the late Louis Adolph Kollmeyer, father of co-founder Shannon Kollmeyer.
“Preserving our wilderness and the natural world is more critical than ever. What’s more, it is a responsibility of all citizens,” Kollmeyer explained.
In the early Twentieth Century, President Theodore Roosevelt, along with other noted sportsmen, was instrumental in crafting the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The policies this model established created the world’s most successful wildlife and habitat conservation program that has rescued hundreds of wildlife species from extinction.
