The price will sink into the budget without a trace even before the money changes hands. The Elliott belongs to the citizens of Oregon. It is a biblically ruinous mistake to sell one's birthright. Most access and use by the public will require a fee payment. Coastal streams will be rendered unfit habitat for valuable fish. Speaking of dead fish, this deal reeks of cronyism, insider dealing, and corruption. And it would foreclose forever the possibility of future income for schools from this land. "You should have bought it when it was offered" - mockery of the dispossessed. Let them eat cake, he says. This is nothing more than the old theft of the Commons by those with power and money.