Brookhaven sets hearing on bamboo ban plan
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Don Seubert, Medford civic leader, stands in a field of 20-foot-high invasive bamboo in Medford. (March 28, 2012)
MaryAnn Johnston feels like she's under siege. Bamboo has wended its way onto her property, woven through her fence, and choked her evergreens.
The Mastic resident supports Brookhaven's plan to join a growing list of Long Island communities that restrict the sometimes unwieldy, intrusive plant.
"It's invasive, and that's the key," Johnston said. "And we don't have any pandas here to...
