provided to The Santiva Chronicle
Alison Reece discovered her passion for the natural environment during her childhood vacations on Sanibel Island, where she now works for the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation and lives thanks to Community Housing & Resources.
“I fell in love with the island,” Reece said of those annual trips spent in the sunshine shelling on the beach. “That morphed into a love for the environment. I’m so passionate about educating people on our ecosystem and how people can help conserve it.”
Reese rented a vacation home after coming to the island, but when the owners decided to sell after the recent hurricanes, she called CHR…