TODD: This bamboo that grows up to 30 feet used to be abundant along rivers in much of the Southeast. YOUNG: And then there's also a lot of rare moths that we track that this is a specific host ...

A Montgomery County Council bill would ban the sale of running bamboo in an effort to reduce bamboo’s impact as an invasive plant.

With the help of a helicopter on Monday, the city of Palos Verdes Estates removed large amounts of non-native bamboo from Lunada Bay. The environment, however, was not the primary reasson. Workers … ...

America's only native bamboo was once plentiful along river banks, before making way for agriculture. Now it's a rare plant, and there are efforts to bring it back.

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: There's a bamboo that's native to the United States. It's called rivercane, and it has an importance both for Indigenous people and the natural environment.

TODD: This bamboo that grows up to 30 feet used to be abundant along rivers in much of the Southeast. YOUNG: And then there's also a lot of rare moths that we track that this is a specific host ...