The Public Record · Docket FS-2025-0001

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Every public comment on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule, sorted by what it talks about. Pick a topic, then narrow by position, by how hard the comment is for the agency to set aside, or by how substantive it is. Each comment is shown in full, as filed. How comments are classified and scored is explained in the Comment Analysis.

1 unique comments24 submissions

Position

Opposes rescission 100.0%

Answerability

A1 strong 0
A2 moderate 0
A3 weak 0
A0 none 1

Substance /24

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Topics raised

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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 24, 2026FS-2025-0001-480906
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This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 21, 2026FS-2025-0001-451724
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 21, 2026FS-2025-0001-452684
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 21, 2026FS-2025-0001-454961
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 17, 2026FS-2025-0001-441828
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This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 17, 2026FS-2025-0001-442527
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 17, 2026FS-2025-0001-442534
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 17, 2026FS-2025-0001-443448
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 17, 2026FS-2025-0001-443965
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 16, 2026FS-2025-0001-417581
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 16, 2026FS-2025-0001-417591
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 16, 2026FS-2025-0001-427215
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 15, 2026FS-2025-0001-413275
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of lite for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 14, 2026FS-2025-0001-376774
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 14, 2026FS-2025-0001-385797
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 14, 2026FS-2025-0001-389082
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 14, 2026FS-2025-0001-395041
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 14, 2026FS-2025-0001-395053
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 7, 2026FS-2025-0001-319832
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is a detriment to this country and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24Sep 7, 2026FS-2025-0001-321498
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Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 24 submissions in its group.
This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and conservation efforts will massively impact animal movement and migration patterns, local populations, and the quality of life for the species that live there. Not to mention that one of the things that keeps America beautiful is the untouched land we have, and desperately need to preserve in a growing world. The President and his administration are PUBLIC SERVANTS, and better start acting like it and less like servants to themselves and whoever is willing to write a big enough check.
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How it works. A large language model (an open-weight Qwen3.8 model) reads each substantive comment and copies, word for word, the passages that carry its analytical gap, evidence, request, alternative and connection to the place; it returns no scores. Code grades those passages 0–3 on eight dimensions — evidence, legal grounding, engagement with the environmental analysis, analytical gaps, alternatives, specific requests, position, and local knowledge — with legal grounding taken from a citation scan, not the model. For the strongest tenth on each side, the copied passages are checked against the comment and shown as exhibits. A comment counts as “substantive” when it clears a floor filter — it must show at least one substantive signal (a named entity, a specific citation, a stated analytical deficiency, or first-person testimony), which screens out one-line and purely conclusory submissions before any model scoring.

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