Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, To Those Who Love Our Country and Its Land, I am deeply…”

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

19 submissions
19 versions of the text
18 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Recreation Tourism Public Use Water Quality Quantity

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When it arrived

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Oct 2Oct 4Oct 5

Oct 2: 12 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-547770, the comment that stands for the group.

Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, To Those Who Love Our Country and Its Land, I am deeply concerned about the proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule. For 25 years, this rule has helped keep millions of acres of national forests intact. These are places where we hike, camp, fish, and explore the outdoors. They also preserve vital wildlife migration paths and protect the streams and rivers that provide drinking water for more than 60 million people. If the rule is repealed, nearly 45 million acres could become vulnerable to development. Once roads are built and forests are broken apart, it may be impossible to restore what was lost. Please don't slash protections that benefit people, wildlife, and communities. Instead, work with states, Indigenous groups, local residents, and land managers to address changing needs without repealing this essential rule. I urge you to change course and preserve the Roadless Rule for current and future generations. Sincerely, Nancy Starrett 1942gal@gmail.com Sincerely, Nancy Starrett

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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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