One of the goals of EM projects is to educate people located within the project boundaries that they are a part of the "ecosystem" the project is trying to manage. However, as Edward Grumbine points out, "managers today are realizing through EM that responsibilities begin at boundaries." Managers are realizing that boundaries can be limiting and that they must look outside their boundaries to engage forces outside that may be influencing their project. Is bounding useful? Or, is it restrictive? If it is useful, what type of bounding is most useful? This part of the analysis will attempt to develop a better understanding of the kinds of boundaries (physical and socio-political) that have been used to define ecosystem management programs and to correlate these boundary-types with different rates and kinds of success. Questions to be addressed include:

• How important is a shared sense of place among stakeholders?
• How much energy is devoted toward educating members of the public about the ecosystem(s) they inhabit?
• Are watersheds a particularly effective management unit for ecosystem management programs?
• What is the relationship between the scale required for ecological success and the scale required for political and organizational success of EM programs?