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 comments47 submissions
Position
  • Opposes rescission 100.0%
Answerability
  • A1 strong 0
  • A2 moderate 0
  • A3 weak 0
  • A0 none 0
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47 submissions in this letter's group · showing 1–20Clear all filters
  1. Opposes rescissionOct 7, 2026FS-2025-0001-611584

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
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  2. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570258

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.This comment stands for all 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  3. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570270

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  4. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570280

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  5. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570400

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  6. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570509

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  7. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570529

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  8. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570559

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  9. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-570585

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  10. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-571222

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  11. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-571578

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  12. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-571789

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  13. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-571861

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  14. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-571995

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  15. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572077

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  16. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572263

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  17. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572429

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  18. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572885

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  19. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572925

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →
  20. Opposes rescissionOct 6, 2026FS-2025-0001-572972

    Campaign — One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. See the letter, its submissions and topics.One of 47 submissions in its group.

    Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to combat climate change is to plant trees to absorb the CO2!
    Full analysis of this comment →

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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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