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. “Roads fragment wildlife habitat. Existing roadless areas provide habitat for many threatened and endangered native species. Roadless areas…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Forest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-411916 · 26 versions · 19 added their own words

  2. “As a hunter, angler, and public land owner, I urge the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to reject the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Economic Impact FiscalRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225073 · 26 versions · 20 added their own words

  3. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, Do not repeal the Roadless Rule. For 25 years, this rule has helped keep millions of acres…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-502972 · 26 versions · 24 added their own words

  4. “I do not want more roads to be built into my national forests. We are suffering a 6th mass extinction of animals and humans are the cause!!…”
    26 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-482707 · 26 versions · 26 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-539355 · 26 versions · 12 added their own words

  6. “I am a hiker and trail runner who cares deeply about our national forests. I support the Roadless Rule and Alternative 1 - No Action in the…”
    25 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-230590 · 23 versions · 15 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-384738 · 23 versions · 22 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  8. “PLEASE DO NOT rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (2001 Roadless Rule), which established broad prohibitions on road…”
    25 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection Biodiversity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-284646 · 23 versions · 15 added their own words

  9. “Dear USDA Forest Service Planning Team, As an active trail advocate, mountain biker, and member of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association…”
    25 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseResource Development Extraction

    Letter FS-2025-0001-341147 · 25 versions · 20 added their own words

  10. “I oppose the elimination of the Roadless Rule.”
    25 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-570376

  11. “Dear Secretary Rollins: I wish to express my strong opposition to the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to rescind the Roadless Area…”
    25 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-596365 · 25 versions · 22 added their own words · names George Washington National Forest

  12. “This is absolutely absurd and the American people do not want this. Creating more roads through areas set aside for wildlife and…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-277070 · 6 versions · 2 added their own words

  13. “As a retired educator and veteran who uses our public lands and national parks and find their beauty to be a national treasure therefore, I…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-344975 · 2 versions · names Middle Fork, South Fork

  14. “i support roadless rule!”
    24 submissions

    Letter FS-2025-0001-304151

  15. “Dear U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, Today I’m writing to urge you to choose Alternative 1 and keep the 2001 Roadless Rule intact…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-335052

  16. “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…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-336329

  17. “The Roadless Rule does not prevent all logging or new road development in designated Roadless areas. It simply requires some additional…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-466003 · 19 versions · 14 added their own words · names Apalachicola National Forest, Ocala National Forest

  18. “Keep the Roadless Rule in place. Protect biodiversity and native plants, wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor recreation, and…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-460376 · 23 versions · 4 added their own words · names Los Padres National Forest

  19. “Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. As a U.S. citizen who enjoys going…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-303327 · 24 versions · 24 added their own words

  20. “I oppose the Trump administration s plans to develop the last remaining undeveloped lands within our national forests. The over 50 million…”
    24 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-558715 · 24 versions · 24 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  21. “As a nature lover, public lands supporter and constituent who cares deeply about our public lands. The Roadless Rule is essential to…”
    23 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-227724 · 21 versions

  22. “In Central Oregon, nearly 200,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas in the Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest, and Crooked…”
    23 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-275305 · 5 versions · names Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest

  23. “In order to Protect our Public Lands AND the Planet the Roadless Rule MUST REMAIN in effect! Protect NOT Pillage! I oppose the proposed…”
    23 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-342956 · 2 versions · names Middle Fork, South Fork

  24. “Roadless Rules should ABSOLUTELY remain in place, and intact! As an environmentalist and member of the League of Conservation Voters, I am…”
    23 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-465247 · 23 versions · 20 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  25. “I oppose this change”
    23 submissions

    Letter FS-2025-0001-227030

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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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