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 comments61 submissions
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  • Opposes rescission 100.0%
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  • A2 moderate 0
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  1. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 7, 2026FS-2025-0001-605447
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,Mary LaneUtah
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  2. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 7, 2026FS-2025-0001-605453
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,Mary LaneUtah
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  3. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 5, 2026FS-2025-0001-557127
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,MichaelIllinois
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  4. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 5, 2026FS-2025-0001-566209
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,lisaCalifornia
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  5. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-533372
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,Mary Illinois
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  6. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-534678
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,StephenArizona
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  7. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-545356
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests. The Thank you,DanielFlorida
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  8. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-545633
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,SusanWashington
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  9. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-545840
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,RobertArizona
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  10. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-545905
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,RuthWashington
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  11. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-546350
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,SusanMichigan
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  12. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-546597
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,PaulCalifornia
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  13. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-547304
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,LeeMissouri
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  14. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-548938
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,AJCalifornia
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  15. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-548954
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,AJCalifornia
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  16. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-549600
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,ElizabethCalifornia
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  17. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-551513
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,KeithMichigan
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  18. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 4, 2026FS-2025-0001-552036
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,Robert JIllinois
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  19. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Oct 1, 2026FS-2025-0001-527768
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,AJCalifornia
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  20. Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24Sep 30, 2026FS-2025-0001-517005
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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 61 submissions in its group.

    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has protected wild, unfragmented forests for more than a quarter century. The rationale offered for doing so is not supported by science, violates the public trust doctrine, and would unleash irreparable harm to our national forests.Thank you,SuzanneNew York
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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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