Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

Wilderness Watch

Campaign: One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. It counts as one unique comment.

Run by Wilderness Watch — From the action page: https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/strengthen-roadless-rule

Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24

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

TopicsWildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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

Sep 15Sep 16Sep 17

Sep 15: 8 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-432646, the comment that stands for the group.

Roads fragment wildlife habitat. Existing roadless areas provide habitat for many threatened and endangered native species. Roadless areas also provide important migration corridors. I oppose rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. It has helped protect roadless areas, and adjacent Wilderness areas, on national forests for 25 years.

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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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