Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I am writing to oppose the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”

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

12 submissions
11 versions of the text
6 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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Sep 6Sep 12Oct 6

Sep 9: 3 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-337573, the comment that stands for the group.

I am writing to oppose the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Roadless Rule has protected some of our last unfragmented national forest land. These lands provide clean drinking water, critical wildlife habitat, and irreplaceable backcountry recreation access for millions of Americans. Repealing it doesn't return "decision-making to the local level" in any meaningful sense; it opens 44.7 million acres to road construction and industrial logging with no guarantee that local communities' voices will outweigh commercial interests. I urge you to keep this protection in place.

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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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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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