ISLAND HISTORY: Keith Robinson and early Hawaiian farming practices

ISLAND HISTORY: Keith Robinson and early Hawaiian farming practices

Keith Robinson, the co-owner of Niihau with his brother, Bruce, is an expert amateur botanist, unique in his field, who remains dedicated to successfully propagating and preserving — as no one else has been able — a number of endangered endemic Hawaiian plant species. I became personally acquainted with Keith Robinson in 1993, while working for the USDA. One afternoon, he invited me to his Hawaiian plant preserve high in the hills above Pakala, …