The state of Connecticut eyeing bamboo for invasive status

pokenei · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:01 am

Someone in Connecticut with a chain saw please go help cut down her grove, and maybe mow down the shoots once a year.

I was gonna suggest she collect the shoots in the Spring to eat and sell them. (Any asian would know the value of bamboo shoots). But then I read she used some sort chemicals to try and eradicate it, so that's no good. If anything, chemicals should be banned. That old lady should be banned. She did more harm to the environment than bamboo.

dependable · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:38 am

If the ABS and this site are mainly for the appreciation and enjoyment of bamboo, it seems we should do what we can to not get it banned. I make my living as a landscape contractor, bamboo installations are a fraction of the business. But my collection is a major source of enjoyment for me. I appreciate several of the latest posts. By the way, I did think this site was connected to ABS. I will help if I can.

Jon
Dependable Landscape
dependableland.com

foxd · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:37 pm

I don't know if this link has been posted before, but it has pictures of the bamboo Caryn Rickel is screaming about. It looks like the only person seeing bamboo coming up in her yard is Caryn Rickel. :shock:

http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/seymour_bamboo_goes_greene/

Perhaps it is some new species of invisible bamboo.

Alan_L · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:31 pm

A write up about the hearing:

http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/i ... e_response

Quote:

The proposed bill — #5122 — has two parts.

- It would make the homeowner who plants the bamboo responsible for making sure it doesn’t grow beyond his or her property. Fines could result if violated.
-It would also require stores selling bamboo to provide a warning telling purchasers that it is a fast growing plant that may spread if not contained.

Greene said the proposal is “intentionally vague” so the Environment Committee could get a lot of feedback to help make it more robust.

Quote:

But others —including Bob Heffernan of the Connecticut Green Industries Council — said the bill was unnecessary.

“House Bill 5122 may be both premature and not needed,” the council Heffernan wrote in his testimony. “Although it’s aiming in the right direction of personal responsibility of people who plant trees and plants.”

The council statement said education — not legislation — is the best way to solve the problems with bamboo plantings.

“When bamboo is contained, it is not a problem,” the group Heffernan stated in its written testimony.

This is a separate issue from adding it to the "invasive" list it seems. If not, I'm confused.

Alan_L · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:33 pm

There's also this document, which is exactly the type of thing that needs to be better publicized:

http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ENVdata/Tmy/ ... an-TMY.PDF

bamboothew · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:06 pm

Alan_L wrote:

A write up about the hearing:

http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/i ... e_response

Quote:

The proposed bill — #5122 — has two parts.

- It would make the homeowner who plants the bamboo responsible for making sure it doesn’t grow beyond his or her property. Fines could result if violated.
-It would also require stores selling bamboo to provide a warning telling purchasers that it is a fast growing plant that may spread if not contained.

Greene said the proposal is “intentionally vague” so the Environment Committee could get a lot of feedback to help make it more robust.

Quote:

But others —including Bob Heffernan of the Connecticut Green Industries Council — said the bill was unnecessary.

“House Bill 5122 may be both premature and not needed,” the council Heffernan wrote in his testimony. “Although it’s aiming in the right direction of personal responsibility of people who plant trees and plants.”

The council statement said education — not legislation — is the best way to solve the problems with bamboo plantings.

“When bamboo is contained, it is not a problem,” the group Heffernan stated in its written testimony.

This is a separate issue from adding it to the "invasive" list it seems. If not, I'm confused.

It's a bit confusing, but it does seem like there are 2 separate actions being proposed--I think

Btw, reading the comments on that latest article, I have never heard such rabid and unfounded hatred being directed toward a plant! Unfortunately, if someone repeats the same nonsense enough times people often start listening! I am glad, though, that someone from an organization within Connecticut is speaking out in rebuttal of her on this one!

foxd · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:00 pm

I did find another rant by Caryn Rickel about how she can't get a national ban of all Phyllostachys species. I take this to mean she actually checked into how it would be done. :shock:

Anybody know an easy way to check legislation to see if she is trying to force through bans in other states?

foxd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:00 pm

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/cipwg/pdfs/generalmeeting/CIPWGGeneralMeetingMinutes30March2011.pdf

Quote:

9. Running Bamboo Discussion
Caryn Rickel from Seymour, CT provided information on running bamboo
(Phyllostachys aurea) and discussed her concerns about this plant. She would like to
have running bamboo added to Connecticut’s list of invasive plants. Caryn has been
traveling around the state, photographing and documenting more than 40 bamboo
populations in residential areas, along roadsides and railroad tracks, in woodlands,
wetlands, and riverbanks. She compiled a spreadsheet of locations where running
bamboo has been found. A general discussion on bamboo followed Caryn’s presentation.
Information is requested on occurrences of running bamboo in Connecticut, and
observations can be emailed to Donna at (please include town,
nearest street intersection, and approximate size of the population).

dependable · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:08 pm

Wow, imagine if she put all that energy toward something useful.

Alan_L · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:44 pm

Ah, 40 out of 4 million properties. Bamboo is taking over the state! :roll:

foxd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:11 pm

There is a website devoted to mapping invasive species called EDDMapS (Early Detection & Distribution Mapping System) which includes their GPS coordinates.

http://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/usstate.cfm?sub=55473

Guess who is responsible for ALL the entries for New York and Connecticut.

Tarzanus · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:54 pm

http://www.eddmaps.org/report/images/In ... NVADED.jpg

Wow, I must admit she found a beauty. I wish we'd have something like this around here.

stevelau1911 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:04 pm

Gotta love how she calls this an infestation when there's a remote grove that appears to be in the back yard of one house, not going into any other property. I guess if she happens to visit my bamboo garden or dozens of other groves around here which grow pretty much in a clump, they are also called infestations.

jd. · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:02 pm

Tarzanus wrote:

http://www.eddmaps.org/report/images/Invasion%20picture%20just%20recd%20from%20Greenlawn,%20NY-%204%20HOMES%20INVADED.jpg

It looks like that ecosystem's already been overrun by invasive grasses. Considering that the photo is taken from someone's backyard and that someone is letting all that grass go to seed and letting all the bamboo grow undisturbed, it looks like intentional ecosystem destruction to me. :shock:

ocimum_nate · **Posted:** Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:13 am

Save invasive species status to really threatening plants honestly I have seen Ulmus pumila Siberian elm, and Salt Cedar do more damage than I could ever imagine bamboo doing here in Utah.

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