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UPDATE:
LA PUSH, Wash. (AP) — A juvenile gray whale has been freed after being stranded on a remote beach in Olympic National Park.
NOAA Fisheries said Saturday that workers freed the 24-foot whale during high tide by digging a trench and using a shore-anchored pulley system that was attached to a harness placed on the animal.
Officials with the park and NOAA Fisheries said the whale was believed to have been stranded in the Kalaloch area of the park last Tuesday.
The whale is 1 to 2 years old and in fair condition.
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