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 strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-325901 · names Cheat Mountain, Seneca Creek

  2. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, I have been an Arizona resident for over 50 years. Part of what has kept be living here is…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development Extraction

    Letter FS-2025-0001-331826

  3. “I am writing to express my strong opposition to any efforts to rescind, weaken, or roll back the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. As an…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-293860 · 28 versions · 27 added their own words · names Croatan National Forest

  4. “I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, alter, or weaken the Roadless Rule, which would reduce protections across 44.7 million…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-226181 · 28 versions · 21 added their own words · names Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest, Lookout Mountain

  5. “I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-481028 · 27 versions · 27 added their own words · names Cheat Mountain, Seneca Creek

  6. “No self-appointed king should be allowed to seek the Peoples Property. Any human reading this should be ashamed of their part in destroying…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-532421 · 27 versions · 28 added their own words

  7. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, se01nsnn se01nsnn , As someone who cares deeply about national parks and the public lands…”
    28 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24

    Letter FS-2025-0001-554158 · 28 versions · 22 added their own words · names Smoky Mountains

  8. “We need our parks, do not destroy our precious nature we are the guardians that need to protect it for future generations The Forest Service…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-347842 · 26 versions · 27 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-274824 · 25 versions · 24 added their own words

  10. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousForest Management WildfireTribal SovereigntyWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-368205 · 26 versions · 22 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  11. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, I'm writing asking you not to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-350141 · 27 versions

  12. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, I urge the U.S. Forest Service to keep intact the existing Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-448835 · 26 versions · 26 added their own words

  13. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, se01nsnn se01nsnn , As someone who cares deeply about national parks and the public lands…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-511361 · 25 versions · 24 added their own words · names Smoky Mountains

  14. “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…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-544182 · 27 versions · 27 added their own words

  15. “Part 15 of 27 - Attachments to Technical Comments of NRDC et al. submitted by Earthjustice. See comment tracking number: muv-kt46-694o.”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-568866 · 26 versions · 1 added their own words

  16. “"I am writing as a public lands user to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule). As a…”
    27 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-606517 · 27 versions · 19 added their own words

  17. “I oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Roadless national forests protect drinking water, wildlife, recreation…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-268913 · 3 versions

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-282046 · 22 versions · 22 added their own words

  19. “Wildfire risk: Wildfires are 4x more likely to start near roads, and roughly 90% start within half a mile of one — directly undercutting the…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-291051 · 8 versions

  20. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, I urge the U.S. Forest Service to keep intact the existing Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-299788 · 25 versions · 26 added their own words

  21. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Subject: Docket ID No. FS-2025-0001 - Don’t rescind the Roadless Rule; respect…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-351732 · 25 versions · 24 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  22. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 8/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-309491 · 26 versions · 26 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…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 8/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-368497 · 26 versions · 26 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  24. “Do not repeal the Roadless Rule!”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-237272

  25. “"America the beautiful" ... Let's save waht's left!!! I oppose the rollback of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than two…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-314754 · 26 versions · 19 added their own words · names Shawnee 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:
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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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