Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I urge the USDA to reject full rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule and select Alternative 1, the No Action…”

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

17 submissions
17 versions of the text
14 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Environmental Protection Biodiversity Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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

Sep 4Sep 10Sep 18

Sep 4: 11 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-327312, the comment that stands for the group.

I urge the USDA to reject full rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule and select Alternative 1, the No Action alternative. The national rule provides consistent protection for secure, connected habitat used by mountain lions and other wildlife. Please fully consider how new roads, increased motorized access, vegetation removal, and human-caused mortality can accumulate across a landscape. Where forest treatment is necessary for community safety or ecological resilience, use targeted, science-based approaches that minimize permanent roads and protect wildlife habitat and connectivity.

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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.

The full method. Every step, why it is done that way, its known limits and a glossary: Methodologies →

The data. The full canonical dataset — every comment on Docket FS-2025-0001 — is available from Regulations.gov's bulk download, the canonical source: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload. Download the CSV directly (Regulations.gov keeps this link working until October 18, 2026): https://bulk-downloads.regulations.gov/mv4-z8fw-q5jx.csv.

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