Tobias Read gets some kudos for this plan. He also gets my respect as he has shown he has an open mind and is willing to shift his course from voting to sell it to finding a way to save it.  The last thing we should be doing is selling important, irreplaceable forest owned by Oregonians to a logging company.  The times are a changin' and the Elliott Forest has some of the best carbon sequestering forest per acre in the world.  Let's be on the right side of history and keep the Elliott, protect the 40,000 acres of native old-growth and let OSU use cutting edge science to manage the rest of the Elliott that has been logged and is now a tree farm.  We must keep our last and best forests intact for ALL the ecosystem services they provide!