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If your backyard is noisy because of a busy road a quarter mile away is there anything one can do to quiet the noise?

Asked by JLeslie (65417points) October 30th, 2014 from iPhone

I know sound walls can do a lot if you live right up against the road. Also, having lived in the woods I know the dense trees during the summer helped shield noise.

This situation there are very few trees and no sound wall next to the road. If I put trees around my backyard will it do anything? Or, is the origin of the noise so far away it won’t matter? I can’t turn it into a forest, it would just be a line of trees.

I’m getting more and more obsessed with needing quiet.

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