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.

“Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, To Whom It May Concern: I am deeply concerned about the proposal to repeal the Roadless…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseTribal SovereigntyWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-454671 · 10 versions
League of Conservation Voters
“Please keep and put and protect the Public, in all our beautiful and majestic Public Lands. I have read, understand, and fully support the…”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
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-461643 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest
“Leave our forests alone”
10 submissions
Letter FS-2025-0001-237075
“Roadless”
10 submissions
Letter FS-2025-0001-270737
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
10 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-2025-0001-343055 · names Tongass National Forest
CalWild
“Watershes, streams, rivers wetlands and aquiters and everything inbetween MUST be protected. For the health of the people, domesticated…”From the action page: https://www.calwild.org/defendroadlessdefendrivers/
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-343495 · names Middle Fork, South Fork
Earthjustice
“i have grown up and vacationed near a rustic national forest which is not available for logging. it protects the State Bird. Loons nest on…”From the action page: https://earthjustice.org/action/protect-forests-from-massive-expansion-of-logging
10 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-2025-0001-344362 · names Tongass National Forest
“Some of the last truly wild places in America are about to lose their protection and the wildlife that depend on them will pay the price…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityResource Development ExtractionWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-353232
“As a climber, public lands supporter and constituent who cares deeply about our public lands. The Roadless Rule is essential to conserving…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public Use
Letter FS-2025-0001-227276 · 10 versions · 9 added their own words
“I benefit from national forests in Virginia preserved by the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. These areas have a big impact on my life…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-225952 · 10 versions · 6 added their own words
“My name is Mary Hill, and I am writing to say I strongly oppose the proposed removal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I am a…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-297815 · 10 versions · 9 added their own words
“I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Since 2001, Roadless…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-295259 · 10 versions · 7 added their own words
“I write in furious and unqualified opposition to this proposal, and I do so as a matter of patriotic duty. There is a species of vandalism…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Economic Impact FiscalEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfirePublic Opinion Support
Letter FS-2025-0001-228795 · 10 versions · 1 added their own words
“I am writing to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (RIN 0596-AD66) and to urge the Department of…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA1 strongSubstance 11/24
Economic Impact FiscalForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-454087 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words · names Executive Order 14154
Oregon Wild
“I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate, weaken, or alter the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate our public…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityGovernance Policy ProcessWater Quality Quantity
Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-488813 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
SaveRoadlessForests.com
“Attached are 20 comments submitted through SaveRoadlessForests.com”From the organisation's cover comment: FS-2025-0001-305083
10 submissionsOpposes rescission
Sentiment Only
SaveRoadlessForests.com also uploaded its campaign in files: 3,143 entries in 16 uploads, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-305083
“"I am writing as a recreationist to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule). As a…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 7/24
Climate Carbon StorageForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-513380 · 10 versions · 8 added their own words · names Coyote North, Glass Mountain, Independence Creek, Laurel Mcgee, Rock Creek, San Joaquin, Soldier Canyon, Wheeler Ridge
“Dear Secretary Rollins, I strongly oppose the USDA’s proposal to eliminate or weaken the Roadless Rule. This reckless action would devastate…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-518800 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
Oregon Wild
“When a road goes in the area suffers more pollution, fires, animal deaths, invasive species, etc. That's why I strongly oppose the USDA’s…”From the organisation's submission: FS-2025-0001-505645
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity
Oregon Wild also uploaded its campaign in files: 1,859 entries in 1 upload, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-530482 · 9 versions · 6 added their own words
Trout Unlimited
“Our public lands should not be turned into tree farms by corporate America. The purpose of this "managed forest" garbage.is to cut all the…”From the action page: https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-530786 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
“Please keep the roadless rule in place.”
10 submissionsOpposes rescission
Sentiment Only
Letter FS-2025-0001-314771
SaveRoadlessForests.com
“Attached are 20 comments submitted through SaveRoadlessForests.com on 8/31/2026”From the organisation's cover comment: FS-2025-0001-541627
10 submissionsOpposes rescission
Sentiment Only
SaveRoadlessForests.com also uploaded its campaign in files: 3,143 entries in 16 uploads, (Bulk Upload).
Letter FS-2025-0001-541627
MountainTrue
“To the U.S. Forest Service: I am writing to express my strong opposition to any efforts to rescind, weaken, or roll back the 2001 Roadless…”From the action page: https://mountaintrue.org/the-roadless-rule-comment-period-is-now-open/
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public Use
Letter FS-2025-0001-540127 · 10 versions · 10 added their own words
“To Whom It May Concern, I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat
Letter FS-2025-0001-540687 · 3 versions
“The Roadless Rule is one thing protecting much of our public land from logging, mining, development and loss of habitat for wildlife, clean…”
10 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity
Letter FS-2025-0001-540804 · 8 versions · 2 added their own words

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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'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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