[ChrisMarshallNY]

Around here, the best way to deal with a bamboo infestation is with a backhoe.

Bamboo is big grass. It spreads via seeds and roots. It all needs to be ripped out.

When I lived in Africa, we'd have bamboo forests, with trunks up to about a two-foot diameter (and about six inches apart). Completely impassable.

Great place for small critters to escape big predators.

[devmor]

Unfortunately for me, my neighbor had about a half acre of thick bamboo forest, and thus my yard was set upon by the plant endlessly.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

In my area, you can rat these folks out to the DEC. I suspect they can make life difficult for folks that want to keep their weedlots.

I watched them take out a backyard full of kudzu.