Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I oppose the Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Roadless forests…”

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

13 submissions
13 versions of the text
11 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Environmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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

Aug 20Aug 31Sep 17

Aug 20: 4 submissions, 1 unique comments

What it names

Roadless areas: + Blue Lake

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-265560, the comment that stands for the group.

I oppose the Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Roadless forests are some of our most valuable public lands, providing clean water, wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities, carbon storage, and places where people can experience the beauty of undeveloped forest. I am particularly concerned about the potential loss of protections for roadless areas in the Methow Valley and throughout Washington. These lands are important to our communities and should remain protected from new roads and commercial timber harvesting. I urge the forest Service to keep the Roadless Rule in place and protect these remaining wild forests for future generations. Thank you.

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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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