Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I write in opposition to the proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, removing protections from millions of…”

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

11 submissions
9 versions of the text
7 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Forest Management Wildfire Recreation Tourism Public Use Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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

Sep 16Sep 17Sep 18

Sep 16: 6 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-426619, the comment that stands for the group.

I write in opposition to the proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, removing protections from millions of acres of national forest from commercial development. For 25 years, the rule has protected about 30% of national forests and grasslands, including intact forests and habitat for wolves, grizzlies, salmon, and other wildlife. Millions of acres of our national forests are at risk. Repealing the rule would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild places upon which wildlife, communities, and future generations depend. These intact forests protect habitat, support outdoor recreation, and help build resilience against wildfire.

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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's bulk download, the canonical source: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload. Download the CSV directly (Regulations.gov keeps this link working until October 18, 2026): https://bulk-downloads.regulations.gov/mv4-z8fw-q5jx.csv.

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