In November of 2011, Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team (AMSET) was tasked by the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute to provide retrospective fire behavior and growth analysis for up to 100 fires in the Selway-Bitteroot, Bob Marshall, and the Gila Wilderness areas that occurred in 2007 and 2008, and conduct retrospective fire behavior modeling and spread for alternative management responses to the selected suppression alternative for three fires that occurred within the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
The intent of this modeling was to provide long term fire simulations, and simulate alternative suppression strategies to support a Joint Fire Sciences Project in analyzing the consequences of alternative response strategies in the Northern Rockies and Southwest in 2007 and 2008.