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IMMEDIATE OPENING-PAID POSITION

D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery has one or more immediate
openings for museum technicians, and possibly an interpretive planner for
approximately nine weeks with possible extensions.  These are paid
positions, with no housing available.  Students in museum studies programs,
or persons with previous museum experience are preferred.

The interpretive planner would prepare interpretive and furnishing plans
for a railroad fish car replica.  Research would be involved.

Duties for the technicians will include the regular tasks of museum
collection management: tending hygrothermographs and data loggers,
Integrated Pest Management, daily and wekly cleaning of exhibits and
collection work areas, moving heavy or awkward objects, cataloging and data
entry, and storing objects.

These positions will also include one or more projects.  Projects for 1999
may include inventory and storage of a photographic collection, researching
the history of one or more historic structuires, preparing an interpretive
and furnishing plan for an 1899 apartment, cataloging fish cultural
artifacts, and analyzing a collection of movie, video, and audio tapes for
historic significance.

These positions will work under the supervision of the curator.  They are
funded by the Booth Society, Inc., a non-profit Friends group.  Federal
benefits do not apply.

D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery, operated by the Department of
the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the oldest fish
hatcheries in the West.  Established in 1896 on a ten acre site in
Spearfish, South Dakota, the hatchery is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places.  It has been designated as a site for the collection of
historic fish cultural resources, particularly those of the Fish and
Wildlife Service.  The Fish and Wildlife Service began in 1871, and is one
of the oldest federal conservation agencies.  It has a rich history.

The museum collection at D.C. Booth is rapidly growing.  It is housed in a
newly constructed collection management facility, providing storage,
processing and conservation space.  The collection includes tools and
eqipment used in fish culture and distribution, uniforms, photographs,
personal papers, and archeological material.  Large pieces include two
hatchery trucks and a 33 foot long boat used on Lake Yellowstone by
hatchery personnel.

The site is open all year, with a museum, historic house, and a gift shop
open in the summer.  Large trout inhabit a pond with underwater viewing
windows.  Smaller trout inhabit other ponds and raceways from Spring until
Fall.  Volunteers provide most of the summer staffing for visitor contact.
There are six permanent Fish and Wildlife Service staff, including the
curator.  The facility is operated in partnership with the Booth Society,
City of Spearfish, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, and the American
Fisheries Society.  Visitation is about 165,000 people per year.

Spearfish, South Dakota, is a small, full-service community in the Northern
Black Hills.  For more information about Spearfish try www.spearfish.sd.us
or call the Chamber of Commerce at 605-642-2626.

TO APPLY: send a cover letter, resume, and three references (contact
information preferred) to Randi Smith, Curator, D.C. Booth Historic
National Fish Hatchery, 423 Hatchery Circle, Spearfish, South Dakota,
57783.  For more information call 605-642-7730 or e-mail
[log in to unmask]  Site information can be found at
www.fws.gov/r6dcbth/dcbooth.html

Response due: April 15, 1999