At least 40 volunteers who want to spend a day outdoors measuring plants are needed Feb. 27 and Feb. 28 at the Capinero Creek Restoration Area in Tulare County. The 467-acre property is owned by the Tule Basin Land & Water Conservation Trust and is the site of a former dairy. This is the second volunteer event of the year at Capinero Creek, which is in the midst of being transformed from intensively farmed ground back to native habitat. Thousands of recently planted native scrub grasses have taken the place of water-intensive crops that used to feed dairy cows. … The project is an example of land repurposing shepherded by the trust that will become more common throughout the San Joaquin Valley as the region adapts to groundwater restrictions under the  Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).