Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“The people that will benefit from your planned destruction of nature already have enough money. I urge you to…”

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

18 submissions
18 versions of the text
18 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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Aug 21Sep 5Oct 6

Aug 21: 6 submissions, 1 unique comments

What it names

National Forests: + Cherokee National Forest+ White Mountain National Forest
Roadless areas: + White Mountain

Names marked + were added by senders and are not in the shared letter.

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-311676, the comment that stands for the group.

The people that will benefit from your planned destruction of nature already have enough money. I urge you to keep the Roadless Rule in place exactly as it is. Like millions of Americans who have spoken out since 2001, I support the Roadless Rule and value our country's public lands and waters, including 44.7 million acres of undeveloped forests. The Roadless Rule safeguards clean drinking water for millions of Americans, provides vital habitat for threatened species and sustains old-growth and mature forests that serve as critical carbon sinks. It also protects access to popular climbing, fishing, hiking, backcountry skiing, mountain biking and paddling sites. Please keep the Roadless Rule intact and help protect our legacy of public lands by following Alternative 1 (No Action). Thank you, Fiona Woody

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Roadless.org and Nicholas Holshouser, “2001 Roadless Rule Revision — Public Comment Analysis,” https://roadless.org.

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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