Every campaign, by how it reached the agency: choose Individual Submission or Bulk Upload.
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.
Each campaign's organisation where known, its letter, how many submitted it, its position and ratings, and the topics it raises.
“I don’t think most people have been in true wilderness areas, only areas accessible by car or truck. They would notice the difference…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-521456 · 50 versions · 50 added their own words
“Do not repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule!! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-227001 · 49 versions · 28 added their own words
“As an avid outdoors enthusiast and also someone who deeply cares about preserving our nation's public lands and wildlife for the benefit of…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-307308 · 48 versions · 48 added their own words
“Roadless areas are the heart and soul of fish, wildlife, and clean water. The roadless areas are a refuge for my family to get away from all…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-272778 · 43 versions · 43 added their own words
“We need to preserve these lands for future generations! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-339643 · 43 versions · 24 added their own words
“It is imperative that pristine lands remain this way for future generations. Having visited many of America’s great national parks, I urge…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-285265 · 42 versions · 42 added their own words
“The reasoning being given for rescinding the roadless rule is fire prevention. But fires are more prevalent in areas with roads than areas…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-245868 · 42 versions · 42 added their own words
“I was raised surrounded by the beautiful nature of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. One of the best things the United States of America has done…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-256683 · 42 versions · 42 added their own words
“I grew up in Rabun County, Georgia, the majority of which is national forest. I spent my childhood camping, fishing, and hiking in those…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-263124 · 39 versions · 39 added their own words
“Roadless areas are working landscapes that sustain irreplaceable habitat and provide high-quality hunting and angling opportunities for…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-273697 · 38 versions · 38 added their own words
“I stand with the millions of hunters and fisherman who are against opening up our public lands . We have to find other ways to get our…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-249276 · 37 versions · 37 added their own words
“The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-276358 · 35 versions · 34 added their own words
“-- RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-276521 · 34 versions · 2 added their own words
“Hello my name is Katie and I believe we should not roll back on the road less rule. "Rolling back the Roadless Rule risks fragmenting…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-357445 · 34 versions · 34 added their own words
“I live and breath the majority of my life on roadless public lands. My income comes from guiding fishing in remote backcountry creeks, and…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-235489 · 33 versions · 33 added their own words
“Taking away conservation efforts that are proven effective for short sighted people trying to make a quick dollar is not the way this…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-258357 · 32 versions · 32 added their own words
“Keep the 2001 Roadless Rule in place! My children and their children will only have so many opportunities to visit and use truly wild…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-555610 · 29 versions · 29 added their own words
“These areas of land are some of the oldest and most natural locations we have left. The higher ups that most of us voted into office are…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-544182 · 27 versions · 27 added their own words
“As a long time lover of wild spaces, the plan to desecrate Roadless areas is beyond belief. Biodiversity and the natural ecosystem is…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-233187 · 14 versions · 14 added their own words
“The roadless areas in public lands are like gold to our country. For me and my family fishing for trout and salmon has been super important…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-602787 · 14 versions · 14 added their own words
“The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-227461 · 13 versions · 1 added their own words
“As a fly fishing guide. I take big responsibility in making sure we leave our fish safe and healthy after netting them. We need our fish…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-594690 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words
“Roadless areas are important and should be preserved. The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-260358 · 10 versions · 1 added their own words
“Our public lands should not be turned into tree farms by corporate America. The purpose of this "managed forest" garbage.is to cut all the…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
Letter FS-2025-0001-530786 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
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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.
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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