Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“As a passionate advocate for our nation's public lands and waterways, I am writing to share my strong…”

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

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

TopicsRecreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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Sep 1Sep 12Sep 21

Sep 1: 4 submissions, 1 unique comments

What it names

National Forests: + Pisgah National Forest
Roadless areas: + Wilson Creek

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-360742, the comment that stands for the group.

As a passionate advocate for our nation's public lands and waterways, I am writing to share my strong opposition to rescinding or altering the Roadless Conservation Area Rule. The protections currently provided for these 58.5 million acres of land across the United States not only conserve critical habitat for native species, but they also ensure that Americans, like myself, have undeveloped natural spaces to enjoy hiking, hunting, fishing, and so much more. I am deeply concerned with the idea of rescinding the Roadless Rule, which is extremely important to maintaining the health of our local drinking water resources. The Roadless Rule directly protects over 80,000 miles of rivers, some of which are right here in my back yard in the Catawba-Wateree River Basin. Our local water resources are already heavily impacted by stormwater runoff and erosion caused by rampant development throughout the region, so it is critical that we conserve the safe haven spaces currently protected by the Roadless Rule. I strongly support maintaining the Roadless Rule as it is. Watershed protection is vital for the health and wellbeing of our communities now and for generations to come. Sincerely, Deborah Adams

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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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