2009年纽约海洋和大湖生态系统委员会报告“我们的水域,我们的社区,我们的期货“推荐一个生态证券流域规划的基于M的管理方法,作为可持续管理自然资源与人类活动之间关系的方式。作为回应,NYS环境保护部(DEC)开始了一个集中努力,以保护莫霍克河流域计划和发展的发展莫霍克河流域行动议程。
虽然行动议程担任流域的管理工具,但存在潜在限制目标和目标的信息差距。To address these gaps, in March of 2014 DEC's Mohawk River Basin Program and its partners at Union College, Cornell University’s Water Resources Institute, and the United States Geological Survey hosted a day-long workshop to bring together experts from academia, state, local and federal government, non-profit, and other private organizations and tasked them with identifying research needs to address data gaps that hindered implementation of the goals and objectives of the Action Agenda.
这次长期研讨会的结果编制了Mohawk River流域计划研究优先事项2014-2016.这是莫霍克河流域行动议程的免费文件,并指示未来的研究。