A public comment used to vanish the moment you hit submit. Not anymore.
Sign up with your email and every letter you write through PLAN becomes a record: proof it posted on the official docket, the agency’s answer to what you raised, the right to object when the next round opens, and the ground you stood for. No password. Nothing published. Free.
Proof your letter made it
Every hour PLAN reads the official docket on regulations.gov and looks for the letters our readers filed, matched on your own words. When yours posts, you get one email with the official link and the posted date, and your letter moves from “filed, you said so” to “verified on the record.” Nobody else does this.
The honest partForest Service project comments go through a system that never posts comments publicly, so those stay at “filed” by your word, and we say so on the label. You can paste the confirmation number the agency gave you and we keep it beside the letter.
The agency’s answer to what you raised
When the decision comes, agencies have to respond to substantive comments. PLAN reads the decision document, matches its responses to the issues your letter raised, and sends you what they said, page cited. The ones they skipped are named as skipped. That is a fact litigators use.
The honest partDecisions land months after a window closes. The answer arrives when the agency publishes it, not before.
The right to object
On Forest Service projects, only people who commented during the comment period can object to the draft decision. PLAN knows you commented, watches the project move into its objection period, and tells you the window is open with the how, where and when.
The honest partThe exact deadline is stated only when we have read it off the legal notice. Until then we say the window is open and follow up with the date.
The record in your name
Your letters, the agencies and states you wrote to, the public lands under those fights with their acreage, the issues you raised and the ones answered. Badges earned by what you did: the first letter, the ground you stood for, the kinds of country, the fights, the seasons, the national rules. And a season card, drawn from your record, to share if you want.
The honest partYour letters and your email are never published. The boards show you the way the docket does, first name and last initial with your state, and you can switch that off in your record.
Badges for what you did, not for showing up on a Tuesday.
A badge for the first letter, one for each public land you stood for (the Deschutes, Yellowstone, the Malheur), one for each kind of country (wilderness, monuments, refuges, rivers), one for each fight (timber, drilling, roads, wildlife), one for each state and agency and season, and one for each national rule you were on the record for. Milestones for letters, words and acres. Windows are not daily, so there are no streaks: a streak would reward writing on fights you don’t care about.
- First voice
- On the record
- National forests
- Monuments
- Wilderness
- Wild and scenic rivers
- Wildlife
- Timber
- Oil and gas
- Oregon
- The Roadless Rule, 2026
- Fall 2026
- Early
- Answered
- Objector
- A million acres
- 01Write a comment on any open fight.The wizard asks you two or three questions only you can answer and folds them into a letter in your own words.
- 02Sign up with your email.Tap “Tell me when it posts” on the filing screen, or sign up here. No password, we email a 6-digit code. The letter is yours on any device.
- 03File it on the official page, then tell us.PLAN can’t press submit for you; the agency’s page is the record. Mark it filed, paste the confirmation number if you have one.
- 04Watch it become a record.Your badges land the moment you file. Verification, the answer and the objection window follow when the government moves, each by one email.
One email a week at most when there is something for you: new fights in your states and the places you watch, drafts about to close, letters that posted, issues that were answered. Every alert has a switch on My comments. Delete your account and every letter with two taps, any time. Tell us and a person reads it.
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The boards. By state and by fight, ranked on letters found on the official record. Readers appear as first name and last initial with their state; switch yours off in your record. See who is on the record →