Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

Organised campaigns.

A campaign is one letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. Each counts as one unique comment, however many sent it. Where the organisation that ran a campaign is known, it is named, with how it was found; otherwise the campaign is named by how its letter opens. Largest first.

811 campaigns

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

  1. “I love the outdoors and animals and want my daughter to be able to grow up in a world with wild places. Please stop this roll back of…”
    55 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-332289 · 55 versions · 55 added their own words

  2. “The actions currently consideration will have negative impact on both my generation and all future generations. The 2001 Roadless Area…”
    55 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225758 · 55 versions · 53 added their own words

  3. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, Dear In response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement that it is proposing a…”
    55 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24

    Letter FS-2025-0001-551188 · 55 versions · 54 added their own words

  4. “We have been fly fishing in rivers and lakes for almost 50 years. I strongly support maintaining protections for all roadless areas and…”
    54 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-292274 · 54 versions · 54 added their own words

  5. “The road less rule has protected countless thousands of acres of land. My question to you is do you want your children, grandchildren to…”
    54 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-573012 · 54 versions · 54 added their own words

  6. “I've spent a significant amount of time in these public lands over the years and think it is not in our long term best interest as a nation…”
    53 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-226007 · 53 versions · 53 added their own words

  7. “I urge you to NOT rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of…”
    53 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-311825 · 53 versions · 40 added their own words

  8. “I oppose the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national forests are an…”
    53 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-379052 · 43 versions · 39 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  9. “Respect The Roadless Rules--they are the glue that keeps the rest of the country from just mudsliding or fireballing into waste...Think…”
    53 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-521733 · 51 versions · 53 added their own words

  10. “I am conservationist, fly angler and veteran. I urge you to defend the sanctity of our natural resources and environment for future…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-286392 · 52 versions · 52 added their own words

  11. “This act is essential and vital to our jointly shared enviornment. It was passed using solid science. I will not vote for any candidate who…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225039 · 52 versions · 52 added their own words

  12. “Please do not get rid of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule! We live in Idaho and use our backyards every day! The beauty of America lies…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-228731 · 52 versions · 52 added their own words

  13. “Roadless areas provide some of the best fish and wildlife habitat and hunting and angling opportunities for Americans of all walks of life…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-370691 · 52 versions · 51 added their own words

  14. “Please do not change the roadless rule. The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225346 · 52 versions · 12 added their own words

  15. “Dear Secretary Rollins, Please do NOT rescind the Roadless Rule! We need to protect our wilderness and wildlife from motorized vehicles…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-299525 · 52 versions · 52 added their own words

  16. “To Whom It May Concern, I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-289584 · 6 versions

  17. “I oppose the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national forests are an…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-344615 · 28 versions · 22 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  18. “I have visited countless spectacular National Parks and Forests during my lifetime. They are Mother Nature's most precious gifts to we…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-385691 · 45 versions · 43 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  19. “Do not rescind the roadless rule.”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-224537

  20. “Wildlands and roadless areas are a core part of Washington’s identity and economy. Washington State’s 2 million acres of roadless areas…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-277089 · 52 versions · 41 added their own words

  21. “The wild places of our country are our most precious asset. Without our iconic forests the most magical thing about this nation will be…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-511447 · 49 versions · 52 added their own words

  22. “Roadless areas represent some of the most intact public lands and wildlife habitats left in the country, home to more than 77 bird species…”
    52 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-593814 · 3 versions

  23. “Please keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule!! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use…”
    51 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-226675 · 50 versions · 17 added their own words

  24. “I am a Missouri resident, but during my time in the Northwest I have grown to appreciate the forests for recreation and beauty that I am…”
    51 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-546407 · 48 versions · 51 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  25. “We are don’t need more roads to maintain, nor do we need more damage done to our forests and public lands. They belong to all Americans, not…”
    50 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225558 · 50 versions · 50 added their own words

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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:
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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: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload.

Roadless.org — analysis of the public comment docket.
Media inquiries welcome — nicholas@wanderingnature.com.

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