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Profile
2016
Monica Zappa, 32, was born and raised in
Cumberland, Wisconsin. She holds a bachelor’s
degree in Meteorology and a master’s in
Geography from the University of Oklahoma. She has
also completed one year of a PhD program in
Geography. While attending school she worked at the
national weather center there. She moved to Kasilof
in the spring of 2010, to run dogs and work as a
handler for Bruce Linton. Then she says, “Tim
Osmar talked me into living and working with him in
the fall of 2010 and I haven’t left.” Her
main occupation is commercial fishing, but she does
a lot of other things to pay the bills. Her latest
venture is making Mending Twine Bracelets. She
hopes to sell them this season to help afford
Iditarod; they can be purchased on her webpage.
Monica grew up in a mushing family. Both her
parents competed in and officiated the John
Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. She explained that
her dad’s dream was to run the Iditarod but he
died before it happened. Monica and Tim have been
“Mushing to Save Bristol Bay” since 2012
and join their dogs in always standing up for the
wild salmon when foreign mining giants threaten
them.
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