The site chosen for the National Museum of Wildlife Art was previously a KOA campground, a site that had been degraded by overuse and insensitive development. The primary goal of the project was to restore the site to its native landscape while incorporating a building that enhanced or even disappeared into the site. The museum is built of native stone and set back into the steep hillside so that it becomes almost invisible from the road below.

The access road is aligned along the natural topography to also disappear into the native landscape.  While parking and outdoor event areas are provided, very little of the development is visible from the valley floor and the surrounding landscape has been restored to its native condition seamlessly connecting with the existing unaltered landscape.