Dedication ceremonies will include setting setting the Allegheny River on fire. (just kidding, it was Cuyahoga that used to catch on fire).Seriously she helped make us aware that pesticides in the environment (See Silent Spring, DDT) were affecting the avian food chain from earthworms to robins to eagles and ospreys. What the fun loving enviros did with this is a horse of a different color.
We can't even give her that. I wholeheartedly share your enthusiasm for eagles and ospreys, but they started to come back in the 1950s, before Silent B.S. even appeared. (Don't have the link to the population chart, sorry.)
My guess is that the comeback was due to the same factor that started the more recent deer and turkey explosion, which is habitat expansion. There has been a demographic revolution in the U.S. since 1900, and especially since WWII, which is that people have left farming by the millions, and millions of acres of formerly cultivated land has gone fallow. That transitional scrub that grows up on the land is full of seeds, berries and nice cover, and predators' prey animals (like mice and rabbits) go wild for it. The predators get a new lease on life when that happens. It no doubt helps that the farmers are no longer there to trap and shoot them.
I've also seen quite convincing documentation that the research that supposedly showed DDT damaging eggs, didn't.