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. “Acting Director, Ecosystem Management Coordination, USDA Forest Service Joshua White,Dear Joshua White, USDA Forest Service Acting Director…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireGovernance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public Use

    Letter FS-2025-0001-381986 · 13 versions · 11 added their own words

  2. “I urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withdraw its proposal to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Nearly 45 million…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-293695 · 13 versions · 11 added their own words

  3. “Administrators, I am a trail runner, hiker and backcountry skier who cares deeply about our national forests. I support the Roadless Rule…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Economic Impact FiscalForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-284495 · 13 versions · 13 added their own words

  4. “I am writing as a public lands user and recreationist to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 11/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-465490 · 13 versions · 12 added their own words · names Aurora Crater, Coyote North, Glass Mountain, Independence Creek, Laurel Mcgee, Log Cabin Saddlebag, Mono Craters, Mt. Hicks, Rock Creek, San Joaquin, Soldier Canyon, Tioga Lake, Wheeler Ridge

  5. “I am writing as a to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I urge the Forest Service to retain the…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireGovernance Policy ProcessTribal Sovereignty

    Letter FS-2025-0001-281675 · 13 versions · 10 added their own words

  6. “I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below. I ask the agency to respond to each of the…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousGovernance Policy ProcessResource Development ExtractionWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-252233 · 13 versions · 12 added their own words

  7. “I am writing to urge you to keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in place. For 25 years, the Rule has stood between 45 million acres of…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-274038 · 12 versions · 9 added their own words

  8. “I am a resident of Sarasota County in the state of Florida and I respectfully urge you to withdraw this proposal and retain the Roadless…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-485383 · 12 versions · 10 added their own words

  9. “The Trump administration is trying to open up 45 million acres of national forest to road construction. It’s a bad idea. Thousands of…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 0/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-488355 · 13 versions · 7 added their own words

  10. American Rivers

    “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, Dear In response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement that it is proposing a…”From the action page: https://act.americanrivers.org/page/101689/action/1

    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Water Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-551762 · 13 versions · 13 added their own words

  11. Sierra Club

    “I might never get an opportunity to explore this land but I know I need to fight for any future generations that have this exploration…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-480496

    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportWater Quality Quantity

    Sierra Club also uploaded its campaign in files: 20,135 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-542687 · 12 versions · 13 added their own words

  12. “Dear Secretary Rollins, I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate or weaken the the roadless rule. Roadless forests represent some…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-557701 · 13 versions · 12 added their own words

  13. Earthjustice

    “I oppose the Trump administration s plans to develop the last remaining undeveloped lands within our national forests. The over 50 million…”From the action page: https://earthjustice.org/?p=45378

    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Earthjustice also uploaded its campaign in files: 40,115 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-573797 · 11 versions · 12 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  14. “To the United States Forest Service: I write to express my strong opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-581426 · 3 versions

  15. “Dear Secretary Rollins, I strongly oppose the Proposed Rule rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule. Rolling back the Roadless Rule will open…”
    13 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessResource Development Extraction

    Letter FS-2025-0001-481633 · 13 versions · 13 added their own words

  16. “I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal or weaken the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule that has…”
    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-228735 · 2 versions

  17. “We only have one planet and as world leaders we should be leading the way in keeping the natural earth beautiful and intact. I urge you to…”
    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-277059 · 11 versions · 12 added their own words

  18. Bears Belong

    “I strongly oppose the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For nearly 25 years, the Roadless…”Named in the letter: Bears Belong. The Roadless Rule: How rescinding the Roadless Rule will negatively impact grizzlies. https://www.bearsbelong.com/roadless-rule

    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 9/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-251143 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words

  19. Bears Belong

    “I strongly oppose the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. We cannot surrender our public…”Named in the letter: Bears Belong. The Roadless Rule: How rescinding the Roadless Rule will negatively impact grizzlies. https://www.bearsbelong.com/roadless-rule

    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-447744 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words

  20. “Roadless areas in our national forests are not disposable. Many are mature or old-growth forests—irreplaceable ecosystems that protect plant…”
    12 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-266612 · 2 versions

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-343849 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  22. “I am strongly opposed to the proposed changes to the Roadless Rule, and I do not support moving forward with this rule. Our roadless forests…”
    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-308381 · 4 versions

  23. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 7/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-442163 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-356132 · 12 versions · 12 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  25. Sierra Club

    “The Forest Service should keep the Roadless Rule intact exactly as it is. Do not weaken or repeal this critical policy. National forests are…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-480496

    12 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Sierra Club also uploaded its campaign in files: 20,135 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).

    Letter FS-2025-0001-369527 · 11 versions · 12 added their own words

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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's bulk download, the canonical source: https://www.regulations.gov/bulkdownload. Download the CSV directly (Regulations.gov keeps this link working until October 18, 2026): https://bulk-downloads.regulations.gov/mv4-z8fw-q5jx.csv.

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