Oct 14, 2026 · 10 min · 12 segments
St. Louis County budget town hall tonight, county park ranger budget could be cut 68%, Shrewsbury comes out against county executive plan to shift roads to municipalities, city looks at changes to…
Julie Irwin is the president of the Backcountry Horsemen of Missouri St. Louis Chapter, a nonprofit that works with park rangers to keep parks and trails open.
She says that reduction would reduce the county's current 34 park rangers down to just six.
They've already taken more calls this year than they did all of last year, and last year they took more calls than the year before.
That's over 8,500 calls already this year, and it ranges from hurt hikers or bikers in the parks, car break-ins.
People are poaching animals.
Another proposal is for municipalities to pay for county roads that run through their city.
Alderman asked city administrator Dustin Siebold what that would cost Shrewsbury.
Were we able to determine yet what our, our cost would be to do? We will- Not that I'm supporting this ...
we, we would need some reasonable amount of time to have Chris and his team go out and do a formal analysis of these roads and, and get a full picture, but it, it will not be cheap.
Okay.
Um, with the volume on those roads- I know ... particular-
Julie Irwin is the president of the Backcountry Horsemen of Missouri St. Louis Chapter, a nonprofit that works with park rangers to keep parks and trails open.
She says that reduction would reduce the county's current 34 park rangers down to just six.
They've already taken more calls this year than they did all of last year, and last year they took more calls than the year before.
That's over 8,500 calls already this year, and it ranges from hurt hikers or bikers in the parks, car break-ins.
People are poaching animals.
Another proposal is for municipalities to pay for county roads that run through their city.
Alderman asked city administrator Dustin Siebold what that would cost Shrewsbury.
Were we able to determine yet what our, our cost would be to do? We will- Not that I'm supporting this ...
we, we would need some reasonable amount of time to have Chris and his team go out and do a formal analysis of these roads and, and get a full picture, but it, it will not be cheap.
Okay.
Um, with the volume on those roads- I know ... particular-
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