Contact Information

Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Contact and Visit

Contact and Visit


Contact and Visit

Administrative

Jeffrey Stringer

Chairman, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources

(859) 257-7596 stringer@uky.edu 105 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Debbie Gutierrez

Business Manager

(859) 257-2516 debbie.gutierrez@uky.edu 107 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Leslie Queary

Administrative Services Coordinator

(859) 257-7596 leslie.queary@uky.edu 105 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Extension

Renee Williams

Multimedia Communications Specialist

(859) 257-7597 rdwill5@uky.edu 216 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Student Services

Laura Lhotka

Academic Coordinator

(859) 257-8718 laura.lhotka@uky.edu 108 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Director of Undergraduate Studies

John Lhotka

Professor of Silviculture

(859) 257-9701 john.lhotka@uky.edu 210 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

Director of Graduate Studies

Jian Yang

Associate Professor of Forest Landscape Ecology

859-257-5820 jian.yang@uky.edu 213 Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073

UK Campus - Lexington, Kentucky

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Thomas Poe Cooper Building

The Department of Forestry and Natural Resources is housed primarily in the Thomas Poe Cooper Building which is located at the corner of Rose Street and Huguelet Avenue. The building contains research laboratories, office space, lecture rooms, and other facilities needed to serve the mission of the program.

Parking may be available at the T.P. Cooper Building for visitors. The small parking lot for our building is at the back of T.P. Cooper and is accessed off of Huguelet Drive. Contact Leslie Queary at (859) 257-7596 or leslie.queary@uky.edu for parking information.

Thomas Poe Cooper Building
730 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40546-0073
859-257-7596


Eastern Kentucky

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Robinson Forest

Robinson Forest, managed for research, teaching and Extension education by the University of Kentucky Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, is one of the largest research and educational forests in the eastern United States. Robinson Forest is a collection of eight tracts totaling 14,800 acres, and is located on the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Kentucky.

Robinson Forest
617 Clemons Fork Road
Clayhole, KY 41317
606-666-9995

Robinson.Forest@uky.edu

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Wood Utilization Center

The Wood Utilization Center is a 14,000 square foot facility contains an industrial hardwood furniture manufacturing laboratory, classrooms, computer laboratory and a 10,000 board foot hardwood lumber dry kiln. The manufacturing laboratory contains: a rough mill, straight-line rip saw, panel clamp carrier, finish planer, feed through CNC moulder, push through moulder, double-end tenoner, table saw, band saw, CNC router, complete traditional finishing systems and complete template and knife grinding equipment.

Wood Utilization Center
130 Robinson Road
Jackson, KY 41339-9081
606-666-2438 ext. 233

Forestry and Natural Resources Department
forestry.department@uky.edu
(859) 257-7596

Forestry and Natural Resources Extension
forestry.extension@uky.edu
(859) 257-7597

Contact Information

Thomas Poe Cooper Building 730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073