The Boston Herald noted on Sunday that the polar bear is not so endangered after all.

Thursday is the deadline set by a federal judge in Alaska for the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether the polar bear is a threatened or endangered species.
All the evidence shows the polar bear doesn’t need his help. . . .
Polar bears have been around for 100,000 years, surviving much warmer temperatures before the last ice age. Population estimates are subject to huge and unknowable uncertainties. Native groups say there are more than there were several decades ago. Environmentalists are pursuing another petition to list a seal species as endangered — one eaten by bears, it seems. If there weren’t so many bears, there’d be more seals.
Canada, on whose territory about two-thirds of the bears live, has refused to classify them as threatened or endangered. The United States should follow suit.