Take a look at the trees growing on U-S Forest Service land. Chances are they were planted soon after the fires of 1910.

It's a good bet those now mature trees started as seedlings at a nursery near Haugan.

It's called Savenac Historic Tree Nursery.

The nursery has a living memorial grove of Spruce trees to honor 78 fallen firefighters who died in 1910. Civilian Conservation Corps workers planted them.

CCC boys Stewart Russell and Melvin Hudson didn't plant the trees. But they worked at Savenac.

Hudson says, "Roosevelt was President at the time.It was the greatest thing that ever happened," he says.

Stewart Russell figured he was doing a great favor for the nation by planting trees. He says, "we were Roosevelt's tree army."

Montana/ Idaho border towns of DeBorgia, Saltese and Haugan all burned. They rebuilt.

Savenac had its own scars.

Lolo Forest Supervisor Elers Koch came to the forested stretch on his honeymoon in 1907. He started the nursery.

The nursery burned in the fires of 1910. But it re-opened to supply seedlings for burned areas.

It re-populated thousands of acres of burned timber.

Conservation Corps men rebuilt the white framed buildings.

Now contemporary volunteers are updating the work the CCC men did 70 years ago.

Archeologist Sydney Bacon says they're helping restore buildings, excavating and cataloging.

At age 92, forester Buyd Moore isn't old enough to remember the fires of 1910. But he heard the stories firsthand.

"We learned from those fires," he says. He feels good at Sarenac.

"Here's a handmade place," he says, " that tried to adopt nature, and brought some nature here. We can do that, " he says.

These days seedlings for the U-S Forest Service are grown in Coeur d'Alene.,

But the historic Savenac Nursery is open to the public.