Every campaign, by how it reached the agency: choose Individual Submission or Bulk Upload.
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.
| Comments posted to the docket | 390,062 |
|---|---|
| … with attachments 4,162 of them count as one | 4,629 |
| Less the uploads of other people’s names or letters the note on the front is not an entry | − 467 |
| Plus the entries their files hold 15 uploads counted by the number their note states | + 728,634 |
| Entries counted | 1,118,229 |
The records read from the uploaded files. These are not parts of the count: a few uploads' files hold more records than the upload counts as, so they sum to 729,563, not 728,634.
Each group’s uploads, largest first by the entries their files hold. Each upload opens its comment. Where the group’s supporters also posted its letter themselves, the row links to those campaigns: the posted copies are counted once each in the first line above, not in this table.
These results are meant to be shared.
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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