Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

Organised campaigns.

A campaign is one letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. Each counts as one unique comment, however many sent it. Where the organisation that ran a campaign is known, it is named, with how it was found; otherwise the campaign is named by how its letter opens. Largest first.

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 am a young American who wants to explore the beauty of our country through national forests and parks. I wish that my future children are…”
    76 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-546363 · 74 versions · 76 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  2. “It's time to stop ignoring the American Public. Let's slow down, do more research, and proceed cautiously. Quite simply, not enough time nor…”
    76 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-600370 · 69 versions · 75 added their own words

  3. “I live in Western North Carolina and deeply oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Please select the No Action…”
    75 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public Use

    Letter FS-2025-0001-248369 · 74 versions · 71 added their own words

  4. “YOU SCUM CRIMINALS..!!! ALL = trump STOOGES LOOKING FOR ANOTHER FREE GRIFT FROM PROFITEERS ...!!!! DESTROYING PUBLIC LANDS, FORESTS =…”
    74 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-514842 · 70 versions · 70 added their own words

  5. “keep the roadless rule”
    73 submissions

    Letter FS-2025-0001-225334

  6. “The Roadless Rule is vital to the American way of life, please fight to protect it! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over…”
    72 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-247487 · 72 versions · 66 added their own words

  7. “Federal land once developed is gone forever. It cannot be undone. We need to protect our wildlife from corporate greed and corruption. The…”
    72 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-485893 · 71 versions · 71 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-417685 · 69 versions · 4 added their own words

  9. “As a person who appreciates the many values national forests bring to my state, my wellbeing, our wildlife and more, I support Alternative…”
    70 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-224660 · 9 versions · 1 added their own words

  10. “I oppose the rollback of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For more than two decades, this rule has protected much of the wildness that…”
    70 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-312209 · 9 versions · names Shawnee National Forest

  11. “The Forest Service should keep the Roadless Rule intact exactly as it is, utilizing Alternative 1 in the current DEIS. I am deeply concerned…”
    70 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Governance Policy ProcessRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-478278 · 68 versions · 67 added their own words

  12. “I want to keep our natural spaces natural. No roads, no logging, no mining. I want them to be there for my grandchildren. I oppose the Trump…”
    70 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-557645 · 69 versions · 70 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  13. “Wildlife habitat is most important to me, especially for steelhead and salmon. Please save the Roadless Rule! The 2001 Roadless Area…”
    69 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-249503 · 69 versions · 68 added their own words

  14. “: Proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Docket FS-2025-0001) I am writing to oppose the proposed rescission of the…”
    69 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Public Opinion SupportRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-315602 · 67 versions · 47 added their own words · names Superior National Forest

  15. “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…”
    69 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-556265 · 69 versions · 69 added their own words

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

    Letter FS-2025-0001-291090 · 61 versions · 67 added their own words

  17. “In Central Oregon, there are close to 200,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas in the Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest…”
    67 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-472565 · 67 versions · 6 added their own words · names Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest

  18. “What we leave for our children is important. We should do everything we can to protect the National forests for every citizen, let alone the…”
    67 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportResource Development ExtractionWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-502787 · 66 versions · 67 added their own words

  19. “Our world is at a crossroads and our impact on the environment is at a crucial point in time. We must take action to protect our natural…”
    66 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-256482 · 66 versions · 66 added their own words

  20. “Wildlands and roadless areas are a core part of Washington’s identity and economy. Washington State’s two million acres of roadless areas…”
    66 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-265419 · 5 versions

  21. “We need to preserve more areas as roadless not less! Let's save as much of our natural treasures as we can for future generations of…”
    66 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-542885 · 66 versions · 66 added their own words

  22. “Attached are NINETEEN (19) comments. On behalf of The Conservation Alliance, we are submitting comments in favor of Alternative 1 - “No…”
    65 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-545651 · 4 versions

  23. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, I urge the U.S. Forest Service to keep intact the existing Roadless Area Conservation Rule…”
    64 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Public Opinion SupportRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-389562 · 64 versions · 62 added their own words

  24. “Roadless areas are working landscapes that sustain irreplaceable habitat and provide high-quality hunting and angling opportunities for…”
    63 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-227887 · 63 versions · 62 added their own words

  25. “I oppose the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless areas in our national forests are an…”
    63 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-345124 · 49 versions · 46 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

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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.
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