Published 12:30 pm Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Spend any amount of time in Central Oregon’s abundant outdoors and it will seem pretty darn noisy once you get back home. Even if you live in a quiet neighborhood, wherever there are lawns to be found, welp, have fun trying to replicate a natural experience there for long. You’ll be enjoying the warmth of the sun on your closed eyelids when out come the garden variety noisemakers. What’s that? Oh, just the sound of a neighbor cranking up a gas-powered garden tool to beat back the modicum of nature that dare assert itself on property that is his sworn duty to protect. I mock, but I’ll take weed eaters and lawn mowers any day over the true scourge: Leaf blowers. Per a 2017 study , there are more than 11 million of these loud, stinky, two-stroke pollution generators in the U.S. That’s more than 11 million too many.…