More than 200 endangered steelhead trout that were rescued from a creek polluted by ash and debris from the Palisades fire are thriving in their new digs in Santa Barbara County, state officials ...

In one of Juday Creek’s most idyllic spots, Chazz Taylor tips a five-gallon bucket gingerly into the water’s surface until his batch of squirming brown trout have all plopped into their new home.