and other birds feasting on a basket of bread left in an open window. Awards and honors Dolack's work won "Best of Show" from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators in 1991. The Missoulian in 1999 named Dolack "100 Montanans of the 20th Century." In 2003, Trout Unlimited bestowed its Communications for Coldwater Conservation Award—an annual honor given to a reporter, writer, or artist whose work has made significant gains in educating the public about conservation and the habitat of coldwater fish—on Dolack. The Monte Dolack Scholarship Fund at Great Falls High School is named for him. The westslope cutthroat trout from Dolack's 1986 "Blackfoot River" is featured on a Trout Unlimited specialty license plate issued by the state of Montana. Other roles Dolack has served on the board of directors of the Montana Arts Council and the University of Montana Fine Art Advisory Board, and was a delegate from Montana on the Japan Economic Trade Organization in 1995. He also sat on the advisory board of the Big Hole River Foundation in 1999, and has been a member of the board of directors of the Montana chapter of Trout Unlimited since 1995. Dolack is a founding member of the Japan Club. A Democrat, Dolack is an avid fly fisherman, hiker, and bird watcher. References Bibliography Bottoms, David. Vagrant Grace: Poems. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1999. Cohen, Stan. Wings to the Orient: Pan American Clipper Planes, 1935–1945: A Pictorial History. Missoula, Mont.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1985. George, Charles and George, Linda. Montana. New York: Children's Press, 2000. Glendening, John. The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. Livingston, Peter; Daniel, Joseph; Brittin, Phil; Albers, Susan; and Koster, Susan. The Complete Book of Country Swing & Western Dance, and a Bit About Cowboys. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1981. McCoy, Michael. Journey to the Northern Rockies. Old Saybrook, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 1998. McRae, W.C. and Jewell, Judy. Montana. Berkeley, Calif.: Avalon Travel Publishing, 2009. Meagher, Mary. Yellowstone and the Biology of Time: Photographs Across a Century. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Peterson, Eric. Frommer's Montana & Wyoming. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2010. Schullery, Paul. Cowboy Trout: Western Fly Fishing As If It Matters. Helena, Mont.: Montana Historical Society Press, 2006.Who's Who in America.'' 65th ed. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2010. External links Monte Dolack's official Web site 1950