Optimizing Forest Management to Maximize Carbon Sequestration and Forest Values

In recent years, global warming has become an inevitable and urgent challenge. Forest ecosystems play a leading role in maintaining ecological services and are also important carbon sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). To help forest managers around the world to better utilize and manage forests. In this paper, we develop a carbon sequestration model to fit the factors influencing forest age, plantation density, and stand type with forest carbon sequestration and then introduce adjustment factors to build a carbon sequestration model to calculate the average annual carbon sequestration of different forests. In addition, considering other aspects of forest value, this paper constructs a decision model and analyzes the value index weights using the entropy weight method. The conclusion shows that: medium forest age, the thinning density of 1, and the first type of forest have the strongest carbon sequestration capacity; reasonable harvesting of 4–6% of the forest as a whole and mixed forest for this forest can increase the number of trees in the forest that purifies the atmosphere by 6–7 times, while adjusting the forest's stand density by about 33%, which will have an impact on the carbon sequestration value when mixed forest and adjusting the stand density, which can then be carried out with a moderate amount of The value of forest by-products can be increased by harvesting. This paper provides further suggestions for maximizing carbon sequestration and the value of forests.