Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I am a hiker and trail runner who cares deeply about our national forests. I support the Roadless Rule and…”

Campaign: One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. It counts as one unique comment. The record does not say which organisation ran it.

Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
  • 25 submissions
  • 23 versions of the text
  • 15 added words of their own

When it arrived

Submissions received each day. Tap or hover a bar for its count.

Aug 21Aug 28Oct 5

Aug 21: 11 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-230590, the comment that stands for the group.

I am a hiker and trail runner who cares deeply about our national forests. I support the Roadless Rule and Alternative 1 - No Action in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement that would continue current management under the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Roadless Rule is extremely important to the outdoor recreation community. The current proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule would remove protections on more than 25,000 miles of trails nationally. Road construction in Inventoried Roadless Areas will damage watersheds, fragment landscapes and may increase the number of wildland fires. Eliminating the Roadless Rule is unpopular and unnecessary. Thousands of hikers like me enjoy trails in Roadless Areas. Please do not rescind the Roadless Rule.
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How it works. Position and topic classification is performed by a large language model (the open-weight Qwen3.8 27B) that reads each comment and labels its position — supports, opposes, or neutral — and the topics it raises. Copies and campaigns are found by hashes of the text and the overlap of six-to-eight-word phrases, grouped into text families; every unique figure counts one family once. Sentence embeddings (Qwen3) find reworded templates, shown under Organized campaigns, and cross-check the families; lexical, syntactic and stylometric features (TF-IDF, spaCy) score each comment’s originality for review. Neither decides a copy count. The full method is on the Methodologies page of roadless.org.

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The data. The full canonical dataset — every comment on Docket FS-2025-0001 — is available from Regulations.gov's bulk download, the canonical source: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload. Download the CSV directly (Regulations.gov keeps this link working until October 18, 2026): https://bulk-downloads.regulations.gov/mv4-z8fw-q5jx.csv.

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