Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I am writing to oppose the USDA Forest Service's proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation…”

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 5/24

38 submissions
9 versions of the text
5 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Tribal Sovereignty Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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

Aug 21Sep 13Oct 6

Oct 6: 28 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-239497, the comment that stands for the group.

I am writing to oppose the USDA Forest Service's proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and to support Alternative 1, the No Action Alternative, in the draft environmental impact statement. For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has provided safeguards for undeveloped National Forest lands while allowing limited exceptions for public safety, wildfire response and forest work. Rescinding the rule would remove these safeguards from approximately 45 million acres. Roadless areas protect water sources and wildlife habitat, maintain connected landscapes, and support hiking, running, climbing, skiing, hunting, paddling and other forms of outdoor recreation. These experiences also support local communities, Tribal sovereignty and the $1.3 trillion outdoor economy. Please select Alternative 1 and retain the 2001 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.

The full method. Every step, why it is done that way, its known limits and a glossary: Methodologies →

The data. The full canonical dataset — every comment on Docket FS-2025-0001 — is available from Regulations.gov: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload.

Roadless.org — analysis of the public comment docket.
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