Texas Gardening: Bamboo root removal day, 0 by LouC

LouC wrote:
Somewhere on a thread I think I may have already sent this bit of info. Brilliant minds (I'm be facetious) imported Japanees bamboo to Maui...the kind with little bitty leaves. It has become so invasive that it is killing native vegetation and literally covering the mountain sides. It is terrible. Panda Bears eat it. But they require very cold weather. Another example of man's folies. Oh yeah, someone else thought it would be great to import mongoose (they have no snakes on any of the Hawaiian islands) to combat the imported rats and mice. Instead they joined forces and ate the bird eggs. They are now down to 800 species instead of the former 3800. Man is nature's worst enemy.
I always thought mongoose were large. About the size of a large rat.

LouC