Nature's Secret Service
Nature's Secret Service
Ed Newcomer
The McKittrick Memo - Elinor Colbourn
58 minutes Posted Jun 16, 2026 at 5:55 am.
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Join Ed for his conversation with former federal prosecutor Elinor Colbourn about the infamous McKittrick Policy and its impact on wolf poaching cases. Elinor was a senior federal prosecutor with the US Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division where she prosecuted some of the country's most important criminal cases involving environmental law. She was the prosecutor on the "Friday Night Lights" case discussed with Special Agent Keith Swindle in Season 1, Episodes 4 and 5.