Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I strongly oppose the Department of Agriculture/Forest Service proposal to repeal or weaken the 2001 Roadless…”

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

35 submissions
34 versions of the text
20 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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Aug 31Sep 5Sep 17

Sep 1: 16 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-298066, the comment that stands for the group.

I strongly oppose the Department of Agriculture/Forest Service proposal to repeal or weaken the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This is a designated wilderness area so that means that you leave it alone. No human intervention or disturbance of the wild inhabitants of that wild Animal Sanctuary. A Sanctuary devoid of humans except on foot. Roadless areas provide recreation opportunities and safe drinking water for millions of Americans. It saves downstream communities millions of dollars in water-filtration costs. Research shows that human-caused ignitions cause the vast majority of wildfires and are roughly four times more likely to ignite near roads. Additionally, for 25 years, the agency has had a multi-billion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog for its road system. Building more roads will only deepen these problems. I urge the USDA to abandon this proposal and reaffirm your commitment to protecting our roadless forests for wildlife habitat, clean water, climate resilience, and recreation for all Americans.

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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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