Rebecca Noblin

OPINION: Fish and Wildlife Services takes politics over science, to the detriment of the polar bear.

Alaska's polar bears are getting an important boost from President Barack Obama's Interior Department with the recent designation of more than 187,000 square miles of "critical habitat" in Arctic sea ice and coastal areas.

Attorney General Dan Sullivan's Dec. 12 commentary, "Developing resources won't harm wildlife," misrepresents the facts about Alaska's imperiled species and the efforts to protect them under the federal Endangered Species Act.