[2] The founding editors intended for the journal to be a forum for scholarship relating to "citizen enforcement of public [environmental] laws.

[5] Additionally, the journal was ranked among the top eleven environmental, natural resources, and land use law journals most frequently cited by cases.

[5] Articles in the journal have been cited by the Second,[6] Third,[7] Eighth,[8] and Ninth Courts of Appeals.

[9] Occasionally, the journal has published issues relating to symposia sponsored by the University of Oregon School of Law.

[12] Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta,[11] and the journal hosts an archive of past issues on its website.