Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

Organised campaigns.

Every campaign, by how it reached the agency: choose Individual Submission or Bulk Upload.

What a campaign is

A campaign is an organised effort by a group to get people to weigh in on the rule. The group writes a letter or a petition, asks its supporters to add their names or their own words, and gets the result to the agency. However it arrives, it is one campaign. It can arrive in two ways, and each is counted its own way.

The count is of entries, not people. A posted comment carries no name, so a person who posted the letter and also signed the petition is two entries, and cannot be matched.

The campaigns whose supporters posted the letter themselves, largest first by how many times it was posted. Each counts as one unique comment, however many posted it. Where the group behind a campaign is known, it is named, with how we know; otherwise the campaign is named by how its letter opens.

5 campaigns run by Oregon Wild

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Each campaign's organisation where known, its letter, how many submitted it, its position and ratings, and the topics it raises.

  1. Oregon Wild

    “I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, weaken, or alter the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate our public…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645

    78 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-468170 · 78 versions · 77 added their own words

  2. Oregon Wild

    “I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, weaken, or alter the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate our public…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645

    21 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessWater Quality Quantity

    Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-545800 · 21 versions · 20 added their own words

  3. Oregon Wild

    “I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, weaken, or alter the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate our public…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645

    11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-482308 · 11 versions · 11 added their own words

  4. Oregon Wild

    “I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, weaken, or alter the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate our public…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645

    10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessWater Quality Quantity

    Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-488813 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words

  5. Oregon Wild

    “When a road goes in the area suffers more pollution, fires, animal deaths, invasive species, etc. That's why I strongly oppose the USDA’s…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645

    10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-530482 · 9 versions · 6 added their own words

Sharing & methodology

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Please cite us. This analysis is the intellectual property of Roadless.org and Nicholas Holshouser. You are welcome to reproduce it — every reproduction must include this citation:
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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