Legislative History

March 4, 1929 Authorized as Badlands National Monument
January 24, 1939 Proclaimed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 10, 1978 Redesignated as Badlands National Park
June 26, 1936
May 7, 1952
August 8, 1968		 Boundary changes occurred
October 20, 1976 Wilderness designation
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