EP 66 Land manager Bill Stormont on bringing aloha to the hardships and controversies in stewardship
Update: 2025-11-07
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Bill Stormont has worked in Hawaiian land stewardship for more than forty years. Born to a multi-generational Hāmākua family and raised on Hawaiʻi Island, Bill started in high school building trails and fences beginning in 1976 through the Youth Conservation Corps. His career within the Department of Land and Natural Resources has taken him from natural areas preservation, to trails and access, and Mauna Kea stewardship. Bill gets into the controversies around feral pig removal in sensitive ecosystems, as well as managing eucalyptus stands for commercial ventures on Hawaiʻi Island, and why coming into any endeavor with heart first is always an essential approach.
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