(2) The appeal shall be tried by the circuit court as an action not triable by right to a jury.
(3) The State Forester may intervene as a matter of right in an appeal under this section from a forestland classification committee order. The State Forester may defend a forestland classification committee order whether or not the forestland classification committee also defends the order. [1965 c.253 §39; 1979 c.284 §163; 2009 c.69 §8; 2013 c.148 §2]