Monsanto Forest Park an auditorium, a space for permanent and occasional exhibitions, and a Centre of Multimedia Resources. Quercus, the largest Portuguese non-profit national environment organization for the conservation of the natural environment, is based in Monsanto Park. The intensive agricultural usage of the soils led to erosion and practically to a destruction of the original vegetation. In the 1930s, the increasing demand for construction areas led Duarte Pacheco, the then Minister for the Public Works of Portugal, to resuscitate an idea from 1868: the reforesting of the then practically bare Serra de Monsanto. The regulation for Monsanto Park was put in place
José M. Dávila Monsanto of the City of Guayama). On April 4, 2001, Dávila Monsanto died in his home in Guayama. The government of Puerto Rico named the highway that extends from PR-54 (Puerto Rico Highway 54), in Guayama, to PR-52, in Salinas the "Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto" (the José M. Dávila Monsanto Highway). José M. Dávila Monsanto José M. Dávila Monsanto (November 2, 1905 – April 4, 2001) was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who in 1938 co-founded the political party "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico" (Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico or "PPD"). He served in the Puerto Rican