NC State University marks 50th anniversary of ‘Silent Spring’
N.C. State University marks 50th anniversary of ‘Silent Spring’, News & Observer, Sept. 25, 2012. Fifty years later, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” still provokes controversy and still serves as a touchstone for the environmental movement. Carson and her book are the subject of a program of public events at N.C. State University that begins Thursday night. Larry Nielsen, forestry and environmental resources, featured.