Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of the Connecticut River, is named in her honor.
[5] She was a teacher in the Springfield, Massachusetts public schools for most of her career, ultimately serving as supervisor of nature study for the district.
[9] Entomologist Lewis H. Weld cited observations made by "Miss Stebbins", author of "Insect Galls of Springfield, Massachusetts and Vicinity" (1909), in his 1926 paper published by the Smithsonian, "Field Notes on Gall-Inhabiting Cynipid Wasps with Descriptions of New Species".
[8] The day after she died, a Holyoke, Massachusetts newspaper wrote: "Miss Stebbins opened the books for the science of nature that is all around us and [tried] to tell us of our relationships with the trees and the rocks and the stars.
Her city, this Connecticut Valley, her country, and its government, all turned to Fannie Stebbins for her own findings in the fields of natural science.
[9][16] The refuge is a floodplain of the Connecticut River that has been identified as an important birding area by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.