The story about people who planted bamboo tickled me. Thirty years ago, despite people warning, “Don’t plant that damn cane!” I planted bamboo in my backyard. It’s so beautiful, so graceful, so green in winter … and relentless in spreading its roots!
I’ve been battling the bamboo ever since and will never eradicate it. It’s all I can do to keep it from overrunning the garden. However, I do admire its tenacity! It’ll still be there when I’m gone.
So last month, you published a letter from Tom Burnet, hydrologist, addressing that very bamboo! [“River Cane’s Promise for Stream Protection,” May 7, Xpress]…