Abstract:
APO river has a length of 3 kilometers with a width of 7 meters and flows
from headwaters in the village Angkasa Pura to empty into the sea which is administered
into the village administration area Bhayangkara. The purpose of this study to (1) identify
the biophysical conditions in the area of the buffer zone of the river sepantaran Apo. (2)
Identifying the form of land use in the bufferzone area of the Apo River from downstream
to upstream. (3) Provide management recommendations in the form of land suitability
directions to carry out Forest and Land Rehabilitation activities in the bufferzone area of
the Apo river. Descriptive method with map interpretation and consists of several stages
that include the preparation stage, the stage of processing and preliminary processing of
data, field checking stage, the stage of data analysis, and recommendations on the imple mentation of Forest and Land Rehabilitation activities in the area of the river BufferZone
Apo. Biophysical conditions of the area BufferZone river Apo has the characteristics of
land cover types that include dry forest primary dry forest secondary, dryland farming
mixed with shrubs, bushes, settlements, soil types litosol, with altitude ranging from 0 m
asl - 690m above sea level. BufferZone slope in the area of very varied ranging from flat
to very steep.In accordance with the decline in the quality of primary dryland forest to
secondary dryland forest covering 22.04 hectares in 2009-2018 and activities that resulted
in the removal of 44.80 hectares of secondary forest in 2000-2009, the large changes in
the nature of both deforestation and degradation of from 2000 to 2018 thus covering an
area of 66.84 hectares or 18.94% of the total research area, namely the Apo river buffer zone. Most of the areas that are categorized as quite suitable are forest areas that are ex periencing deforestation and degradation and the recommended land is suitable enough
to carry out RHL activities in the bufferzone area of the Apo River, only covering an area
of 91.05 hectares or 25.80% of the bufferzone area. Apo river.
