The Audubon Naturalist Society also actively opposed such spraying programs, and recruited Carson to help make public the government's exact spraying practices and the related research. Carson began the four-year project of what would become "Silent Spring" by gathering examples of environmental damage attributed to DDT. She also attempted to enlist others to join the cause such as essayist E. B. White and a number of journalists and scientists. By 1958, Carson had arranged a book deal, with plans to co-write with "Newsweek" science journalist Edwin Diamond. However, when "The New Yorker" commissioned a long and well-paid article on the topic from Carson, she began considering writing more than simply the introduction and conclusion as planned; soon it was a solo project. (Diamond would later write one of the harshest critiques of "Silent Spring").