{"id":5702,"date":"2026-10-07T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/st-louis-county-plan-would-cut-28-park-rangers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:29:49","slug":"st-louis-county-plan-would-cut-28-park-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/st-louis-county-plan-would-cut-28-park-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis County Plan Would Cut 28 Park Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis County could eliminate 28 park ranger positions under County Executive Sam Page\u2019s proposed 2027 budget, reducing the county\u2019s ranger operation from 34 budgeted positions to six as officials confront continuing financial pressures. The proposed reduction would eliminate approximately 82% of the park ranger positions included in the current staffing structure. St. Louis County operates 72 parks, making the proposed ranger reduction one of the most significant changes facing the Department of Parks and Recreation under Page\u2019s spending plan. The ranger cuts are part of a proposal to eliminate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-county-plan-would-cut-28-park-rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis County could eliminate 28 park ranger positions under County Executive Sam Page\u2019s proposed 2027 budget, reducing the county\u2019s ranger operation from 34 budgeted positions to six as officials confront&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}