“Famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall (right) talks with Langley Middle School students Suzanne Cruchon and Allyson Riggs during her visit to one of three stream restoration sites in Langley last week.Jane Goodall considers herself fortunate if she has the time to spend a few weeks in her home in England twice a year.By that standard, the jet-setting environmental activist and chimpanzee researcher has almost made South Whidbey her home during the past year. Last weekend, Dr. Jane returned to South Whidbey almost one year after her first visit last February. Apparently having grown fond of this Puget Sound Island, Goodall came back to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her international youth environmental movement, Roots and Shoots. In the midst of holding a retreat for Roots and Shoots staff at the Chinook Center, Goodall took time out Sunday night to give a lecture about her chimpanzee research to a packed house at the South Whidbey High School Auditorium. Then, on Monday, she toured three work areas along Langley’s Brookhaven Creek where members of the local Roots and Shoots organization, along with other community volunteers and members of the AmeriCorps team, were restoring natural vegetation.Asked by Roots and Shoots members Suzanne Cruchon and Allyson Riggs why she was back on Whidbey Island, Goodall said this is a peaceful place to plan the future of her organization.It’s a wonderful place for a retreat with the Roots and Shoots staff, she said. Cruchon and Riggs are part of the Langley Middle School Girls in Technology group, which signed on as the first members of the local Roots and Shoots organization. Goodall spent more than an hour Monday inspecting the stream restoration the group was working on. She also gave a short speech to the students on the playfields at LMS. Before she started speaking, Goodall walked up a small rise, then turned toward her audience and filmed them with a video camera.This is funny, she said as she began narrating the scene into her camera. This is great.Goodall told the group that developed, Western countries should take most of the blame for the destruction of the world’s natural environment, especially when it comes to Africa. She should be an expert by now. Goodall has spent 40 years in Gombe, Tanzania studying chimpanzees. She said her generation is especially culpable when it comes to environmental destruction.I realized so many of Africa’s problems were due to our Western greediness, she said.The Roots and Shoots supporters who gathered to hear Goodall were inspired. Allyson Riggs said she was taken aback by Goodall’s personal charm.She was asking us questions before we started asking questions, she said.Those interested in joining the South Whidbey Roots and Shoots effort can call Victoria Santos at Langley Middle School. The phone number is 221-5100. “