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The logs were rescued from a big, old blue gum being cut down in Fyshwick. The boulders came up during earthworks crafting the ground for the new suburb of Taylor. The plants and trees came from nurseries and donors all over Canberra. But the ideas behind Lyneham Primary School’s forest classroom came from three students. For Oscar Kendon, 11, Tiri Milne Moten, 12, and Beatrice Dash, 12, a day spent planting trees in what was once a neglected corner on their school’s boundary marked the completion of a project they had overseen from idea to reality. Though the trio of…