The value realization of forest ecological products faces many practical difficulties, such as supply and demand docking, high transaction costs, lack of quality traceability mechanisms, and homogenization of products. However, the vigorous development of digital technology has created new opportunities to advance the value realization of forest ecological products. It is the first time to explore the theoretical logic and path of forest ecological product value realization from the perspective of digital technology, which is of great practical significance and theoretical significance to improve the forest ecological product value realization mechanism. Research found that: (1) the key to realize the value of forest ecological products lied in opening up conversion channels, constructing a survey monitoring-resource development-market operation-support guarantee full-chain mechanism for realizing the value of forest ecological products, and then using digital technology to solve the two core problems of transforming forest ecological resources into forest ecological products and transforming forest ecological products into forest ecological commodities. (2) The theoretical logic of digital technology empowering the value realization of forest ecological products was reflected as follows. The digital technology empowered the four basic links of "production-circulation-distribution-consumption", providing new momentum and vitality for the realization of forest ecological product value; digital technology empowered the industrialization of ecology, enhancing the value-added space of products; digital technology empowered the behavior of forest eco-product market entities, promoted economies of scale and stimulated stronger "long-tail effects"; digital technology empowered forest ecological market transaction information, reducing information friction and realising effective matching of supply and demand; digital technology empowered the cost of forest ecological market transactions, reducing transaction costs. (3) The path for digital technology to empower the value realization of forest ecological products was to use digital technology to do a good job in forest ecological product tenure registration and information census, and to promote the digitalisation of the value accounting of forest ecological products; use digital technology to stimulate the potential for product development, and to build a digital economic platform for forest ecological products and a trading platform; use digital technology to strengthen product quality traceability of forest ecological products, and to enhance value-added forest ecological products and their market competitiveness; use digital technology to soundly realise the value of forest ecological products to guarantee the mechanism; use digital technology for the people to be empowered to improve the digital human resources system in multiple aspects. The research provides theoretical insights for advancing the value realization of forest ecological products in the context of the digital age, which will help to realize the goal of the "dual-carbon" strategy and accelerate the realization of the goal of common prosperity.