Reply #2: They're scared of Bushco

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"We are worried that some superintendents are not releasing the business plans for fear of retribution or criticism by the administration," said Tom Kiernan, president of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a nonprofit advocacy group that monitors the nation's parks.

The superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park was ordered by the Washington office of the Park Service to cancel a news conference that had been scheduled in the fall of 2002 to announce the park's business plan, which showed budget shortfalls. The plan was later made public on the park's Web site.

The Park Service canceled that news conference "not to hide the business plan," Sevy said, but because it believed that the NPCA might "go out there and say a lot of things that our superintendents aren't comfortable saying."