Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation…”

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

21 submissions
21 versions of the text
20 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Environmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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Sep 5Sep 22Oct 4

Sep 22: 13 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-472842, the comment that stands for the group.

I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This proposed action would harm our public lands, increase wildfire risk, and threaten clean water and fish and wildlife habitat. These are our last remaining intact wild forestlands and must be protected. Our national forests are the source of drinking water for millions of people, provide outdoor recreation opportunities, provide vital fish and wildlife habitat, and store carbon. Building roads in these wild places will fragment wildlife habitat, encourage the spread of invasive species, and make our communities even less climate resilient than they already are. Removing protections for these places for logging will exacerbate our biodiversity and climate crises long into the future for short-term profit. Once we build roads and log these wild places we will not be able to undo the damage. Repealing or weakening the Roadless Rule will harm us now and future generations. Please keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in place and protect our national forests.

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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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