Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“The Roadless Rule is one thing protecting much of our public land from logging, mining, development and loss…”

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

10 submissions
8 versions of the text
2 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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

Oct 3Oct 4Oct 5

Oct 4: 5 submissions, 0 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-540804, the comment that stands for the group.

The Roadless Rule is one thing protecting much of our public land from logging, mining, development and loss of habitat for wildlife, clean rivers, natural beauty, and solitude. Roadless areas are critical for clean rivers, for fishing, as migration paths, critical summer and winter range for wildlife including the deer and elk we hunt, enjoy and know is essential to the wild that the people of our nation and state value immensely. The loss would be irreversible. The roadless rule must be kept intact without change.

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Roadless.org and Nicholas Holshouser, “2001 Roadless Rule Revision — Public Comment Analysis,” https://roadless.org.

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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