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. “Roads are how poachers reach remote populations, how bear baiters set up bait stations deep in the backcountry, how trophy hunters and…”
    63 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-354515 · 62 versions · 43 added their own words

  2. “I oppose the Trump administration s plans to develop the last remaining undeveloped lands within our national forests. The over 50 million…”
    63 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-546648 · 61 versions · 63 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  3. “Speaking as natural citizen and an active registered voter. These lands have been preserved for the American people. This is Not your…”
    62 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-348752 · 47 versions · 48 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  4. “The Roadless Rule is one of the most popular pieces of conservation legislation to ever pass. It is beyond unfathomable that we would even…”
    61 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-227234 · 61 versions · 61 added their own words

  5. “Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,Comments for RIN 0596-AD66I strongly oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal to repeal…”
    61 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityLegal Regulatory FrameworkScientific Research Evidence

    Letter FS-2025-0001-284898 · 49 versions

  6. “We are killing all our animals earth very sad its hurting everyone especially the planet each animal has a certain gift they do The Forest…”
    61 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-504844 · 59 versions · 61 added their own words

  7. “Protect our public lands!!! The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule conserves over 58 million acres of multiple-use public lands managed by…”
    60 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Recreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-256741 · 54 versions · 5 added their own words

  8. “I oppose the Forest Service’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Forest Service should strengthen the…”
    60 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 8/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireResource Development ExtractionWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-277916 · 17 versions

  9. “Our lands are sacred and hold more important than money ever could. This greed that calls to destroy our planet is sickening. I oppose the…”
    60 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-372348 · 48 versions · 45 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  10. “Attached are comments from 530 people urging you to retain the current Roadless Rule under Alternative 1 and reject the proposed nationwide…”
    60 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 2/24
    Governance Policy Process

    Letter FS-2025-0001-433490 · 19 versions

  11. “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation Public Comment,Last year, more than 625,000 people from across the United States wrote to the…”
    59 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Cultural Heritage IndigenousTribal SovereigntyWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-403873 · 51 versions · 51 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  12. “I am writing to oppose the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. For 25 years, this rule has protected 45 million…”
    59 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityPublic Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-315514 · 5 versions · 1 added their own words · names Superior National Forest

  13. “I strongly support keeping the Roadless Rule in X place and protecting our remaining roadless national forest lands. These forests are some…”
    59 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-340724 · 59 versions · 26 added their own words

  14. “Do NOT rescind the Roadless Rule! The VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE AGAINST THIS, including me! We need to protect our wilderness and…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 5/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-254709 · 58 versions · 58 added their own words

  15. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, Dear In response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement that it is proposing a…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Water Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-281994 · 56 versions · 2 added their own words

  16. “How is history going to remember you? As the person who let our national treasures be destroyed by greed? Or as the person who SAVED them?…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Public Opinion SupportWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-512880 · 57 versions · 58 added their own words

  17. “Dear Secretary Rollins, I urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to maintain the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and reject its…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA3 weakSubstance 9/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality Quantity

    Letter FS-2025-0001-561497 · 58 versions · 57 added their own words

  18. “Keep the Roadless Rule, protect the forest! Not only is it an irreplaceable home for countless flora and fauna, but one of the best ways to…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management Wildfire

    Letter FS-2025-0001-570428 · 22 versions · 3 added their own words

  19. “I strongly oppose any changes to the Roadless Rule that would allow additional roads, development, or commercial activity in currently…”
    58 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-593883 · 23 versions · 6 added their own words

  20. “Logging, fracking, and mining are destructive enough, but roads come with long-lasting harms like fragmenting wildlife habitat, degrading…”
    57 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24
    Economic Impact FiscalForest Management WildfireWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-266633 · 7 versions

  21. “Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation, Dear In response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement that it is proposing a…”
    57 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Water Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-281947 · 56 versions

  22. “I am writing in strong opposition to the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule. The Roadless Rule currently protects more than 44 million…”
    57 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 4/24
    Climate Carbon StorageEnvironmental Protection BiodiversityWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-470358 · 47 versions · 6 added their own words · names Tongass National Forest

  23. “Please do NOT rescind the Roadless Rule! We need to protect our wilderness and wildlife from motorized vehicles. Alex Cummings The 2001…”
    56 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 6/24
    Forest Management WildfireRecreation Tourism Public UseWater Quality QuantityWildlife Habitat

    Letter FS-2025-0001-313049 · 56 versions · 56 added their own words

  24. “Going through with this decision to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule will cause immense harm to our country. Rather than…”
    56 submissionsOpposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 1/24
    Environmental Protection BiodiversityForest Management WildfireScientific Research Evidence

    Letter FS-2025-0001-276011

  25. “Attached are 20 unique comments from Earthjustice supporters.”
    56 submissionsOpposes rescission
    Sentiment Only

    Letter FS-2025-0001-477090

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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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