  We study the static potential using gauge configurations that include the
effects of two flavors of dynamical Kogut-Susskind quarks. The configurations,
generated by the MILC collaboration, and used to study the spectrum and
heavy-light decay constants, cover a range $5.3 \le 6/g^2 \le 5.6$. There are
at least four quark masses for each coupling studied. Determination of $r_0$
from the potential can be used to set a scale. This alternative scale is useful
to study systematic errors on the spectrum and decay constants.
