Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withdraw its proposal to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Area…”

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 1/24

31 submissions
25 versions of the text
0 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Resource Development Extraction Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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Aug 28Sep 9Oct 6

Sep 9: 17 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-284619, the comment that stands for the group.

I urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withdraw its proposal to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Nearly 45 million acres of undeveloped backcountry forestland depend on the Roadless Rule to protect wildfire habitat, drinking water, recreation, and culturally important lands from new roads and industrial development. The Roadless Rule already allows necessary forest management and emergency road construction. Wildfire risk should not be used as an excuse to open protected forests to more logging, mining, and development. We need science-based forest management and climate resilience, not policies that put short-term extraction and profits ahead of long-term stewardship. Please protect America’s national forests and keep the Roadless Rule in place. Our public lands belong to all of us, and taxpayers should not be asked to fund roads that primarily benefit private extraction and profits. Sincerely, [Your information here]

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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: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload.

Roadless.org — analysis of the public comment docket.
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