Dead Zone

OSU has received a grant to study Dead Zones. Surprisingly these dead zones are located off the coast of Oregon and Chile. For whatever reason these areas have such low oxygenation that crabs and fish cannot survive. Like a big round a bout in the ocean where the fish have to swim around it or die. So a $5 million grant was given to figure it out.

I have noticed Dead Zones right here in Bend. No life has been seen in these areas and people seem to just move around them. Not looking at them, because then you might feel sad. And so these places have become dead zone and have basically become part of the background. McMahans, Kayos, Merendas, Volo, Deep....at first it was shocking but now we move past them, avoiding the conscious knowledge of their existence...knowing that they are currently low oxygen areas.

Although I don't believe a stimulus package will help us discover what caused these local dead zone...I do believe, finally, a vast majority of people are grasping that greed may have sucked the oxygen right out of our lives and in order to breath and fill our lungs with oxygen we need to live within our means.