60-ft.-tall bamboo with trunks 6 inches in diameter are found in Wilderness Park Tucked away in a 26-acre park in Prattville is a bamboo forest used by the U.S. military for Vietnam-era combat ...

These 60-foot bamboo trees have taken over Wilderness Park in Prattville. "The landowner in 1940s had a passion for exotic plants. So he purchased some bamboo seeds and planted 26 acres of bamboo.

For decades after the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse, Vietnam’s foreign policy demonstrated that the most flexible bamboo has sturdy roots. Through the uncertainty of US unipolarity and China’s rise, ...