As far as Russell and Kevin friendship should have been Nick rather than Huey, Dewey and Louie I think is debateable, or to say both good choices in an equal way for different reasons.
But yeah, in the comics Huey, Dewey and Louie has a long history of being scouts in Junior Woodchucks, like for decades back to 1951. (And wow…, that actually means the Woodchucks are actually 70 years old this year o.o . Nice and really cool ^^).
Here is one start page from Don Rosa’s in terms of a retrospective on when Huey, Dewey and Louie joined the Junior Woodchucks, or at least a what it could have been like:
And yes, in case wondering Huey, Dewey and Louie’s Junior Woodchuck comic stories are still featured relatively regularly and are usually pretty okey in my view :-).