Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I am in opposition to the proposed removal of the “Roadless Rule”. Despite broad public opposition to its…”

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

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

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Forest Management Wildfire Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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Sep 11Sep 13Sep 16

Sep 11: 10 submissions, 1 unique comments

What it names

National Forests: Tahoe National Forest

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

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-363716, the comment that stands for the group.

I am in opposition to the proposed removal of the “Roadless Rule”. Despite broad public opposition to its plan, the administration is moving forward with plans to roll back the 2001 “Roadless Rule,” which was designed to protect forests and watersheds from logging and roadbuilding. Rescinding it could put nearly 1,800 miles of protected rivers and streams at risk, fueling wildfires and potentially exposing 25 million Americans to polluted drinking water. The NRDC calls upon us to defend our forests and protect vital public lands like California’s Tahoe National Forest and the Appalachian Trail.

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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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