NJ refuge mourns Maryann the bear after difficult winter season

🐻 Beloved black bear dies: Maryann, a longtime resident at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River, has died after nearly two decades at the Ocean County sanctuary.

💔  Maryann arrived in 2005 after being saved from a breeder in Ohio where she and her sisters were kept in poor conditions and frequently escaped.

🌿  The loss comes as the sanctuary deals with winter closures,…