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.

811 campaigns

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

  1. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I am tied of this administrations attacks on our national forests! Hands off forever! I’m…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-317296

  2. “Please remember that we share this planet. Humans have had a massive negative impact on the natural world in so many please. Please do not…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-531754 · 36 versions · 37 added their own words

  3. “FS-2025-0001-223869 To the U.S. Forest Service: I am writing to express my concern about the recent proposal to eliminate the Roadless Rule…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-539126 · 37 versions · 37 added their own words

  4. “Developing our forests goes against everything we teach our students in biology. It is literally a part of 2 of our units! How do we…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-557393 · 33 versions · 34 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  5. “I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. I spend time hiking and camping on our national forests, and I value having…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-558879 · 8 versions

  6. “Removing nature. Removing an essential part of makes Earth itself, just for more industrialization is vile and evil. Not only is it removing…”
    37 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-558645 · 37 versions · 37 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  7. “I live in Western North Carolina and oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Please select the No Action alternative and…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-247380 · 6 versions

  8. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-311489 · 31 versions · 32 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  9. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I’m writing to urge you to choose Alternative 1 and keep the 2001 Roadless Rule intact. For 25…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-319047 · 2 versions · 1 added their own words

  10. “I oppose rescinding the Roadless Rule without implementing clear safeguards for mature and old-growth forests to protect them from exposure…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management Wildfire

    Letter FS-2025-0001-448094 · 18 versions

  11. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I’m writing to urge you to choose Alternative 1 and keep the 2001 Roadless Rule intact. For 25…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development Extraction

    Letter FS-2025-0001-317304

  12. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I am a retitree of the USAD FS. I’m writing to urge you to choose Alternative 1 and keep the…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-318469

  13. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I’m writing to show my support for the Roadless Rule. I urge you to choose Alternative 1 and…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-318533

  14. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, Our Public Lands are not for sale. Building roads in our wilderness areas is highly destructive…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-318624

  15. “FS-2025-0001-223869 To the U.S. Forest Service: I am writing to express my concern about the recent proposal to eliminate the Roadless Rule…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-541926 · 36 versions · 1 added their own words

  16. “I oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Please retain its protections for inventoried roadless areas. Freshwater…”
    36 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-600940 · 22 versions · 15 added their own words

  17. “The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-276358 · 35 versions · 34 added their own words

  18. “-- RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-276521 · 34 versions · 2 added their own words

  19. “Don’t repeal the Roadless Rule. Keep these lands protected. Roadless areas are needed to protect nature and headwaters, to keep wildlife and…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-302093 · 6 versions

  20. “@Nullified: I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place and protecting our remaininf roadless national forest lands. These forests…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-334646 · 3 versions

  21. “I VEHEMENTLY oppose the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I urge you to maintain the existing Rule as is. The Roadless…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-342760 · 3 versions · names Middle Fork, San Jose, South Fork

  22. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I’m writing to urge you to choose Alternative 1 and keep the 2001 Roadless Rule intact. For 25…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-318496

  23. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, Among many other things, intact areas of forests protected by the Roadless Rule are more…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireGovernance Policy ProcessResource Development Extraction

    Letter FS-2025-0001-319081

  24. “I strongly oppose the Department of Agriculture/Forest Service proposal to repeal or weaken the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This…”
    35 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-298066 · 34 versions · 20 added their own words

  25. “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…”
    34 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-357445 · 34 versions · 34 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:
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: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload.

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

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