The Tottori University Forests consist of the head office including nursery and sample woods, and four local experimental forests. The head office and the Koyama Experimental Forest are located within Tottori City. The Hiruzen Experimental Forest, the Misasa Experimental Forest and the Mizoguchi Experimental Forest are located at Kawakami village, Misasa town and Mizoguchi town, respectively. Each experimental forest is approximately two hours' distance from the head office by car. Forest management and various studies, education and practices are actively performed in each experimental forest, especially in the Hiruzen Experimental Forest, at which the staff are permanently stationed.

The Tottori University Forests especially promote education and studies on the naturally regenerated broad-leaved forests which are dominant in the experimental forests. The fifth edition of the forest management plan (planning period: 1999-2003) was published in March 1999 by the Tottori University Forests.

The Tottori University Forests publish a periodical journal, Research Bulletin of the Tottori University Forests. The Hardwood Research Laboratory is established within the Tottori University Forests and publishes a periodical journal, Hardwood Research.

The Tottori University Forests has a laboratory of Forest Ecology and Ecosystem Management that was established in May 1999. It consists of twelve undergraduate students of the Forest Science Course and one graduate student of the Graduate School of Agriculture, who are studying the ecology and management of natural forests, especially in the Hiruzen Experimental Forest and the Mt. Daisen National Park area.
 

University Forest at Hiruzen (560-870 m a.s.l.) is located at the southeastern part of Mt. Daisen (1729 m a.s.l.), western Japan. It has plantations (216 ha), natural stands (344 ha), and others (13 ha). The natural stands include Quercus serrata, Q. crispula, Fagus crenata, Castanea crenata, Q. acctissima and other deciduous broad-leaved species. Although there are some big trees aged over 150 years, they are mostly young secondary forests established after burning and cutting.

University Forest at Misasa (700-1100 m a.s.l.) is located at the southern central part of Tottori Prefecture. It has much snow (over 2 m in depth) and there are dense Sasa kurilensis (a dwarf bamboo) understories in the higher part (over 800 m a.s.l.) of the forest. It has plantations (48 ha), natural stands (101 ha), and others (37 ha). The natural stands are mostly secondary forests and consist of Fagus crenata, Quercus crispula, Betula grossa, Acanthopanax sciadophylloides and other deciduous broad-leaved species.

University Forest at Houki (350-640 m a.s.l.) is located at the western part of Mt. Daisen. It has plantations (16 ha) and natural stands (17 ha). Trees in the natural stands are almost naturally regenerated Pinus densiflora, and make pure stands as secondary forests. We have 12 long-term research plots with four different ground treatments after harvesting of Pinus densiflora.

University Forest at Koyama (3-28 m a.s.l.) is located on the sand dune 500-1000 m from the coastal line of the Japan Sea, near the Tottori University campus and along the way to the Tottori Airport. All parts of the forest are plantations (4 ha). Pinus thunbergii was planted but many trees are dying from the pine wilt disease. Robinia pseudoacacia and other species are planted for erosion control of the sand dune. Pyrus betulifolia seedlings were planted in 2002 in front of the Tottori Airport. Also Quercus species from China were planted on May, 2007.