The public has spoken and the consensus is overwhelmingly clear.⁠ ⁠ More than 99 percent of Americans are opposed to the Trump Administration’s plan to ditch the Roadless Rule, which protects some of our most cherished hunting and fishing spots on U.S. National Forest land. That’s according to a comment analysis performed by the Center for Western Priorities, a nonpartisan conservation and advocacy organization based in Denver. To ascertain this number, the Center first gathered all the public comments that had been received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the morning of September 19, just four hours before the abbreviated, 21-day comment period officially closed. By that point, more than 183,000 comments had been submitted. CWP then pulled a statistically random sample of 5,000 comments from this dataset and used a computer code to analyze and arrange the comments into three categories: oppose, support, and neutral. CWP’s analysis found that just .6 percent of comments were i...