Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. West Virginia is blessed with many beautiful…”

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

32 submissions
1 version of the text
0 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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

Sep 6Sep 11Sep 16

Sep 7: 5 submissions, 0 unique comments

What it names

Roadless areas: Cheat MountainSeneca Creek

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-323003, the comment that stands for the group.

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. West Virginia is blessed with many beautiful, important places that are currently protected by the Roadless rule including Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, and Cheat Mountain, which are home to species that can't be found anywhere else including the Cheat Mountain Salamander. It's more important that these landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat, and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation than be used to benefit a few commercial logging companies. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations. Sincerely, Ally Beard 102 Finnell St Morgantown, WV 26505-5280 anicole092@gmail.com

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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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