Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“U.S. Forest Service Chief Schultz, I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place. This policy is…”

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 1/24

11 submissions
9 versions of the text
4 added words of their own

TopicsClimate Carbon Storage Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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When it arrived

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Sep 16Oct 4Oct 6

Oct 6: 6 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-435498, the comment that stands for the group.

U.S. Forest Service Chief Schultz, I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place. This policy is supported by the vast majority of Americans, including myself, for countless reasons. The Roadless Rule should be kept in place because the 45 million acres of roadless forests that it protects provide the following benefits to the American public. Roadless forests: Serve as vital habitat for endangered species. Are the headwaters of our rivers, and provide clean drinking water to millions of Americans. Are where we hike, hunt, fish and camp. Every year, millions of Americans venture to these treasured areas to find peace and tranquility. Sequester vast amounts of planet-warming carbon in their majestic trees and soil. Mitigate against forest fires. Allowing roadbuilding and logging will worsen the wildfire crisis and thereby endanger nearby communities. I urge you to keep the Roadless Rule fully intact.

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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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