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.

“I am submitting this comment in opposition to the USDA's proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Docket No…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Economic Impact FiscalForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-395283 · 3 versions
Wilderness Watch
“To whom it may concern, I oppose rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. It has helped protect roadless areas, and adjacent…”From the action page: https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/strengthen-roadless-rule
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-411825 · 11 versions · 10 added their own words
Wilderness Watch
“I strongly oppose rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. It has helped protect roadless areas, and adjacent Wilderness areas, on…”From the action page: https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/strengthen-roadless-rule
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-411428 · 9 versions · 1 added their own words
“Dear Secretary Rollins, I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate or weaken the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-476600 · 11 versions · 10 added their own words
League of Conservation Voters
“I visited Tongass recently and can say we need to keep large tracts open for wildlife. As an environmentalist and member of the League of…”Named in the letter: As an environmentalist and member of the League of Conservation Voters, I am writing in strong opposition to the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Climate Carbon StorageResource Development ExtractionWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-465869 · 11 versions · 11 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest
“I am a resident of Hillsborough county in the state of Florida and I respectfully urge you to withdraw this proposal and retain the Roadless…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-472180 · 10 versions · 1 added their own words
“Save the Roadless Rule!”
11 submissions
Letter FS-2025-0001-225157
“Do not do this”
11 submissions
Letter FS-2025-0001-270873
CalWild
“As a long time 4X4 off-roader that sees the damage we do, we should not spread the damage further. I oppose the proposed repeal of the…”From the action page: https://www.calwild.org/defendroadlessdefendrivers/
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-343193 · names Middle Fork, South Fork
CalWild
“I oppose the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I urge you to maintain the existing Rule as is. The Roadless Rule…”From the action page: https://www.calwild.org/defendroadlessdefendrivers/
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-344213 · names Middle Fork, South Fork
Earthjustice
“I oppose the ridiculous Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national…”From the action page: https://earthjustice.org/action/protect-forests-from-massive-expansion-of-logging
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Earthjustice also uploaded its campaign in files: 40,115 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-344681 · names Tongass National Forest
CalWild
“I oppose the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I urge you to maintain the existing Rule as is. WITHOUT NATURE THERE IS…”From the action page: https://www.calwild.org/defendroadlessdefendrivers/
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-345084 · names Middle Fork, South Fork
Earthjustice
“I oppose the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national forests are an…”From the action page: https://earthjustice.org/action/protect-forests-from-massive-expansion-of-logging
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Earthjustice also uploaded its campaign in files: 40,115 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-345374 · names Tongass National Forest
“I am in total opposition to reversing Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas of our national forests must be preserved. For…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-345431 · names Tongass National Forest
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which has protected approximately 44.7…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA2 moderateSubstance 14/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireTribal SovereigntyWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-384295 · 3 versions · 2 added their own words
“If anything is done with the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, it should be strengthened to eliminate logging and roadbuilding loopholes and…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy Process
Letter FS-2025-0001-411179
“I write in opposition to the proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, removing protections from millions of acres of national forest from…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-426619 · 9 versions · 7 added their own words
“Dear Secretary Rollins, I urge you not to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strongly advocate for the "No Action…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-270663 · 10 versions · 6 added their own words
SaveRoadlessForests.com
“Dear Forest Service leadership: The Roadless Area Conservation Rule should not be rescinded or altered. The Rule should be kept in place so…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-601540
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Cultural Heritage IndigenousRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
SaveRoadlessForests.com also uploaded its campaign in files: 3,143 entries in 16 uploads, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-333948 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
“Please do NOT rescind the Roadless Rule! We need to protect our wilderness and wildlife from motorized vehicles. Logan Carey”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-474111 · 11 versions · 2 added their own words
“As a passionate advocate for our nation's public lands and waterways, I am writing to share my strong opposition to rescinding or altering…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-360742 · 11 versions · 6 added their own words
“Repealing safeguards afforded by the Roadless Rule will jeopardize intact fish and wildlife habitat and I urge the U.S. Department of…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-247520 · 11 versions · 6 added their own words
“I ask the USDA to Alternative A and retain the existing protections for Roadless Areas due to: - Vital for America’s Drinking Water: The US…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion Support
Letter FS-2025-0001-280854 · 11 versions · 9 added their own words
“For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has conserved some of our nation's most intact fish and wildlife habitat, protected clean water and…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Economic Impact FiscalEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public Use
Letter FS-2025-0001-224035 · 11 versions · 10 added their own words
“U.S. Forest Service Chief Schultz, I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in place. This policy is supported by the vast majority of…”
11 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-435498 · 9 versions · 4 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.

Roadless.org — analysis of the public comment docket.
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