UK Robinson Center

At Quicksand (Breathitt County), the Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability (RCARS) is the east region location for research on fruits and vegetables, ornamentals, livestock forages, grain crops, bio-mass crops, tobacco, forestry and wood utilization conducted by faculty and staff in the Departments of Forestry, Horticulture and Plant and Soil Sciences. The RCARS has the budgetary and physical responsibility for managing the research facilities at Quicksand and the Robinson Forest which spreads over parts of Breathitt, Perry, and Knott counties and is the site of forestry, wildlife, surface mine reclamation and watershed management research.