The Bush administration is considering offloading National Park Service archaeologists who oversee and protect America’s historical and cultural heritage. “The administration says turning over the archaeology jobs to private contractors could save money, but critics charge that contractors are ill-equipped to cope with an array of endemic challenges, including influential outsiders trying to dictate Park policy, chronic congressional underfunding and serious personnel shortages that Park Service archaeologists mitigate by using thousands of volunteers – an option not open to a private company.”