Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I live in Western North Carolina and deeply oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Please…”

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 3/24

75 submissions
74 versions of the text
71 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Forest Management Wildfire Recreation Tourism Public Use

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When it arrived

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Aug 22Aug 27Sep 20

Aug 22: 32 submissions, 1 unique comments

What it names

National Forests: + Nantahala National Forest+ Pisgah National Forest
Roadless areas: + Cove Creek+ East Fork

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-248369, the comment that stands for the group.

I live in Western North Carolina and deeply oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Please select the No Action alternative and retain the rule. Pisgah and Nantahala’s roadless areas protect clean water, wildlife, mature forests, recreation and our local tourism economy. The current rule already allows necessary work addressing wildfire, disease and public safety. New roads would fragment habitat, increase erosion and create additional maintenance costs. Please keep these protections in place. Helene had a devastating effect on so many beautiful natural areas that both locals and tourists enjoy, and we will be healing for DECADES. WNC SHOULD NOT BE MADE TO SACRIFICE MORE.

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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.

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