e Roosevelt established it as the Luquillo Forest Reserve in 1903, with it becoming a national forest in 1907. It was renamed the Caribbean National Forest on June 4, 1935. The records held at the National Archives at New York City document issues such as construction and maintenance projects, trespass issues, and land acquisition material for the Luquillo and Toro Negro areas. Under the Parcelero Program, inhabitants of land incorporated into the national forest were allowed to remain in place, with each farmer planting both food crops and timber to help reforestation. Instituted in the 1930s, the Parcelero Program affected some 700 families. Among the records related to this program is an illustrated fictionalized account of the typical parcelero farmer, known as Juan Doe, which was to be used to promote the benefits of the program.

o, but not the United States. Subsequent Congressional legislation, i.e.the Foraker Act, 1900 and the Jones Act, 1917, attempted to clarify the citizenship status of Puerto Ricans. However, these attempts included loopholes and exceptions. One example is the case of Enrique Menoyo, born in Aquadilla in 1904. His father, Prudencio, was born in Spain and elected to retain his Spanish nationality in 1900. His father's foreigner status is reflected in both the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census. Since, until 1922, women derived their status from their husbands, his mother is also listed as a foreigner on the 1920 Census, even though she was born in Puerto Rico. Enrique travelled to New York in 1923 and was admitted as a U.S. citizen, as reflected on the passenger manifest. He travelled to Puerto Rico in 1929 to visit his mother. However, when he tried to return to New York, he was informed that he was a national of Spain since his father had opted to retain his Spanish nationality. His alien status is reflected in a 1934 passenger manifest, while the 1930 Census shows him living in Manhattan but the citizenship column is blank. To remedy this confusion, Enrique filed a Declaration of Allegiance in the U.S. Court for the Southern District, NY and was formally naturalized an American citizen on August 3, 1939.