A last-minute $1.5 million gift helped a Washington state conservation group meet a Tuesday deadline for raising $13.1 million to save a patch of state-owned forest from loggers' chainsaws. As the Loomis Forest Fund prepared to ask the state for more time, the anonymous donation pushed the fund over the top, said its chairman Fred Munson. "That puts us at $13.1 million, which is the appraised value of the land. We still have to raise ($700,000) to meet expenses related to the transaction. But the bottom line is we're done for now," Munson said. The 25,000-acre tract of pristine 120-year-old woods is part of the 134,000-acre Loomis Forest 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Seattle. It is home to the healthiest population of lynx in the lower 48 states of the United States as well as rare grizzly bears and wolverines.