The Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources is located in a complex of four buildings on south campus. The School manages almost 25,000 acres of forest land including the 800-acre Whitehall Forest, located four miles from the main campus. This forest serves as a field laboratory for instruction and research. Facilities included on this forest are experimental fish ponds, a wildlife and fisheries laboratory, a tree nursery, and a wood utilization and plant sciences building.

Other major forest areas managed by the School include:

• The Oconee Forest Park, a recreation and teaching forest located at the edge of the main campus;
• The B.F. Grant Memorial Forest, a parcel comprising 13,000 acres of Putnam County, used primarily for research and demonstration;
• The Thompson Mills Forest, which is also Georgia's official arboretum;
• The 1,500-acre Satilla River Forest, devoted to wildlife and fisheries research. In addition, the School operates the Cohutta Fisheries Research and Extension Center, which is located in northern Georgia about 150 miles from Athens.

The School also manages a number of properties that were given to the University of Georgia Foundation as gifts to the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. These include the 2000-acre Warnell Memorial Forest outside of Savannah and the 2500-acre Wheatley Property on Lake Blackshear in southwestern Georgia.