A 45-day comment period on 2013 timber harvest plans in the Elliott State Forest began Monday. The Oregon Department of Forestry reopened the plan for comment after curtailing logging plans in response to a federal lawsuit filed by conservation groups. The department originally planned to harvest about 46 million board feet, but has revised the plan to log about 14 million board feet. The conservation groups allege in the lawsuit that the original harvest plan endangered the marbled murrelet, a bird protected by the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit is pending in the U.S. District Court for Oregon. The amended …