South Dakota State Government

“I loved the freedom I had to explore as much as I could. I spent many of my days scrambling over boulders in Custer State Park searching for Limber Pine for my supervisor. I was able to core trees to tell their age and found a few that were 180 years old. I also got to monitor for and experience the tragedy that the Ips beetle is having on the trees in Custer State Park. One of my favorite things was seeing the amazing wildlife while working. My favorite sighting was a baby mountain goat that was literally 10 feet away from me. ”

“I worked for the Office of Energy Policy. I entered in data from the State institutions to study energy consumption. I plotted out the usage on graphs using a dot matrix printer. The code was written in BASIC on a Pet Commodore with a cassette drive for storage. ”