Evaluation of Forest Cultural Value of Forest Parks: Taking Fourteen National Forest Parks in Henan Province as Examples

Evaluation of forest cultural value has obvious effect on accounting of forest value and ecological culture building, and has important implications for improving the supply capacity of ecological products and promoting the scientific development of ecotourism. The forest cultural values were assessed using forest culture currency method and culture year assessment method in fourteen national forest parks in different regions and areas in Henan Province. The factors influencing forest cultural value were analyzed. The results of two different methods have good consistency. The forest cultural values of fourteen national forest parks using forest culture currency method are between 601.4 and 4929.2 thousand forest culture currency), and the values using culture year assessment method are between 1518.44 and 9791.60 culture year. The space capacity of resources and economic development capacity of cultural resources are the main factors constraining expansion and improvement of the forest cultural values. Based on the capacity of forest cultural resources and environment carrying capacity, the correlation between tourist numbers, the time people stay in the forest and forest cultural value in forest parks is significant (p < 0.05). Finally, the evaluation characteristics and applicability of two methods are proposed.