Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I oppose the rollback of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than two decades, this rule has…”

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

70 submissions
9 versions of the text
0 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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Sep 3Sep 13Oct 6

Sep 9: 24 submissions, 0 unique comments

What it names

National Forests: Shawnee National Forest

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-312209, the comment that stands for the group.

I oppose the rollback of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than two decades, this rule has protected much of the wildness that remains in our national forests. The protections have been particularly vital in the Shawnee National Forest, where the forest is already highly fragmented. The 10,666 acres of important roadless areas in the Shawnee provide critical habitat for wildlife, clean our drinking water, store carbon, and offer refuge for people seeking quiet and beauty. Opening up areas of the Shawnee to more road construction means the spread of invasive species, further habitat fragmentation, erosion and sedimentation into pristine streams, as well as direct impacts to threatened and endangered species and all wildlife. I urge you to stop rolling back protections for our public lands and leave our last wild forests intact. Please keep the Roadless Rule in place.

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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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