Eagle’s Nest Youth Ranch: healing people, healing horses

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Mia Stewart, a volunteer at Eagle’s Nest Youth Ranch, leads one of many horses that calls the ranch home to another corral. Stewart, according to ranch founder Toni Tuller, is a big help around the ranch. Stewart helps with feeding, moving and anything else the horses or Tuller need.[/caption]

By Avery Martinez

Staff Writer

Among the rolling green hills and piñon-dotted landscape of rural Archuleta County, a winding dirt road brings you to a secluded stable almost invisible from a few hundred yards away.

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At the duck races, Carson Pilgrim (left) and Toni Tuller (right), prepare to race two rubber ducks down the track. Tuller is the founder, operator and driving force behind Eagle’s Nest Youth Ranch, a nonprofit equine ministry that offers interaction with horses and humans through horse riding, horse painting and hikes. The duck race is a popular ranch activity.[/caption]