Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place and protecting our remaining roadless national forest…”

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 4/24

49 submissions
46 versions of the text
8 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Environmental Protection Biodiversity Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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

Aug 24Sep 10Oct 6

Sep 8: 15 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-268023, the comment that stands for the group.

I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place and protecting our remaining roadless national forest lands. These forests are some of the most important places we have for wildlife habitat. clean drinking water, carbon storage biodiversity, recreation, and protecting ecosystems that are increasingly threatened by climate change. Building roads into these areas can fragment wildlife habitat, disturk ecosvstems. increase erosion and pollution, and open previously protected forests to additional development and resource extraction. Once these wild areas are fragmented, it can be extremelv difficult to restore them to what they were. Our national forests should be managed for more than short term economic gain. They provide benefits to communities.

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Roadless.org and Nicholas Holshouser, “2001 Roadless Rule Revision — Public Comment Analysis,” https://roadless.org.

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.

The full method. Every step, why it is done that way, its known limits and a glossary: Methodologies →

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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