Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Our national forests are public lands, our…”

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

41 submissions
1 version 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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Sep 4Sep 10Sep 16

Sep 5: 5 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-316828, the comment that stands for the group.

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Otter Creek where my mother first took me backpacking. We camped and fished there for years. More roads and roads closer to the boundaries of these areas will increase all the bad behaviors in people that ruin pristine places. Please keep this Roadless Rule in place. Too much wilderness has already been lost to development in the lower 48 states. These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations. Regards, Brown Truslow Sincerely, Brown Truslow 805 Luther Jones Rd Shenandoah Junction, WV 25442-4749 93Dodge@pm.me

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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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