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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-342624 · 10 versions · names Middle Fork, South Fork

  2. “Please do not rescind the roadless rule.”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225757

  3. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I am an 87 year old Veteran who weekly hikes with the Portal Hiking Club into the Chricahua I’m…”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 9/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-324057

  4. “The Forest Service should keep the Roadless Rule intact exactly as it is, utilizing Alternative 1 in the current DEIS. I am deeply concerned…”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-480090 · 31 versions · 22 added their own words

  5. “I oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Roadless Rule has been an effective, durable baseline that…”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public Use

    Letter FS-2025-0001-311209 · 31 versions · 19 added their own words

  6. “Dear USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I am writing today in opposition to rescinding or altering the…”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-284264 · 31 versions · 31 added their own words · names Willamette National Forest

  7. “Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I work in IT, I have 2 dogs, and I…”
    31 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-297927 · 31 versions · 31 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-287865 · 30 versions

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-364486 · 28 versions · 27 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  10. “Please, leave nature alone! We need these trees for future generations of humans and wildlife. We have lived centuries without modernization…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-348163 · 20 versions · 18 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-386004 · 26 versions · 27 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  12. “No”
    30 submissions

    Letter FS-2025-0001-271478

  13. “I oppose the Forest Service’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Forest Service should strengthen the…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-278423 · 28 versions · 16 added their own words

  14. “Not enough nature preserved already Our public lands are not for sale! I am writing today to express my strong opposition to the Trump…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-259080 · 30 versions · 27 added their own words

  15. “Our public lands should not be for sale or trade. Every inch, square foot and acre belong to the American public. No administration should…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-510011 · 30 versions · 30 added their own words

  16. “I oppose the rollback of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than two decades, this rule has protected much of the wildness that…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-553323 · 30 versions · 30 added their own words

  17. “The National Forests are a treasure that MUST be protected. I lived many years surrounded by these forests and the thought of them being…”
    30 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-554661 · 30 versions · 30 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-288043 · 29 versions

  19. “I am writing in opposition to the proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule [FS-2025-0001]. For nearly 25 years this rule has…”
    29 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-313060 · 16 versions

  20. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, I am deeply concerned about the proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule. For 25 years, this…”
    29 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseTribal SovereigntyWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-455719 · 29 versions · 18 added their own words

  21. “Keep the 2001 Roadless Rule in place! My children and their children will only have so many opportunities to visit and use truly wild…”
    29 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-555610 · 29 versions · 29 added their own words

  22. “I oppose the Trump administration s plans to develop the last remaining undeveloped lands within our national forests. The over 50 million…”
    29 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-569475 · 29 versions · 25 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  23. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 8/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousForest Management WildfireTribal SovereigntyWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-379545 · 28 versions · 26 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  24. “Its morally and ethically wrong.How can we continue this path of destruction. No one is on board with the data centers and yet pushing the…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-366694 · 23 versions · 22 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  25. “I oppose the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national forests are an…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-379558 · 23 versions · 21 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

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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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