Search Our Web Site



Advanced Search

Please Note:
If you are looking for a Montana business or service, click on the MT Web Directory button above (this will take you to a index page for the Directory) or click on the Search by Name button above (this will take you to a search page for the Directory).


De Borgia

Travel Montana

A view from 1939:

DEBORGIA, (3,035 alt, 125 pop.) named for St. Francis De Borgia, clings to the rocky land.

The nearby Savenac Forest Nursery, the largest in the United States for the development of trees for reforestation, was established by the U. S. Forest Service in 1909. Its annual capacity is 6,000,000 trees; the major species grown, from seeds include western white and yellow pine, and Engelmann spruce. Many small plots are used for experimental work. The trees remain in the seed beds from 1 to 2 years, are transplanted once, and kept until they reach a height of 6 to 10 inches. They are then shipped for permanent planting on Montana and Idaho forest lands, usually in areas that have been twice swept by fires. On such "double burns," natural reforestation is improbable.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.