Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I oppose eliminating the Roadless Rule!!! Logging, fracking, and mining are destructive enough, but roads come…”

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

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

TopicsRecreation Tourism Public Use Resource Development Extraction Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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Aug 24Aug 30Sep 30

Aug 24: 11 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-266714, the comment that stands for the group.

I oppose eliminating the Roadless Rule!!! Logging, fracking, and mining are destructive enough, but roads come with long-lasting harms like fragmenting wildlife habitat, degrading watersheds, increasing pollution, spreading invasive species, and worsening wildfire risk. The National Forest System is the largest municipal water supply source in the U.S., and eliminating the Roadless Rule would place our most vital resource at unnecessary risk. The Forest Service is already billions of dollars behind on necessary repairs for its road network—already twice the mileage of the U.S. highway system. Adding more roads at taxpayer expense primarily for private profit would be unwise at best.

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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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