Daniel & Lady Black      

Daniel Ryan, President

 Daniel Ryan draws on the early imprinting of his horse-saturated childhood.  He grew up in Texas where he started riding at a very young age--bartering donuts for lessons--and then lived & worked on a 10,000-acre cattle ranch and owned his own horse during his teens.  He spent almost every weekend at the stables of an El Paso race track.  An animal lover to the core, he’s been rescuing/fostering animals of all kinds all his life.  Daniel has a special affinity with wild horses and previously abused horses that “hate men!”

In addition to horsy pursuits, Daniel owns Dun-Rite Custom Carpentry.  He is also an artist, working mostly with wood and leather.  A carpenter by profession, he feels that God has been leading him in the direction of horse rescue.

He and his wife, Amanda, have two children:  Erin, 9; and Conor, 6.

Richard Selah, Board Chairman

Richard Selah, B.S., M.S., M.T., is a life insurance agent and registered investment company representative for Primerica.

Amanda & Peanuts
Photo courtesy of  The Dolores Star.

 

Amanda Ryan, Board secretary/treasurer

 Amanda Ryan, MT(ASCP), has owned horses and burros in Colorado for more than twenty years.  A horse lover since, well, birth, she was raised in Connecticut where she learned to ride, showed horses and worked as a groom.  During those years she enjoyed regular visits to relatives’ farms in Iowa where she participated in activities such as rounding up cattle.  During high school she worked as a veterinary assistant in Salt Lake City, Utah.  During college she worked at an animal research facility at the University of Utah, where she was entrusted with the routine veterinary care of 500 dogs under the supervision of the veterinarian.  A medical technologist by profession, she worked at Mercy Medical Center and La Plata Community Hospital, both in Durango, CO, for a number of years before 12 years at Montezuma County Hospital District in Cortez, CO.

Horses being the natural muses they are, Amanda is also a writer and musical composer.
Read her work and that of other area writers at www.artsperspective.com.
 

Sally Selah, Board co-chair

Sally Selah, B.S., M.T., is the clinical laboratory supervisor at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado. The Selahs and their beautiful dog, Yeller, have been area residents since 1991.

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Our Theme Song:

The Horses Go Marching