Brendan Witt

Brendan Witt is a policy advisor at Western Resource Advocates, an environmental nonprofit organization, where he focuses on wildfire resilience and land conservation. His work involves supporting state-level policies related to prescribed fires, ecosystem restoration, and land use planning to mitigate wildfire risks.

Witt is a designated proponent of Colorado Proposition 137 on the 2026 ballot. The measure would allow the state to retain existing sales tax revenue from sporting goods and equipment to fund wildfire mitigation, watershed restoration, and land conservation, exempting these funds from the state's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) revenue limits. Witt and Western Resource Advocates have publicly supported the initiative as a way to create a sustainable funding source for forest management and community protection without raising taxes.

In his capacity with Western Resource Advocates, Witt frequently testifies before the Colorado General Assembly on environmental legislation. He has advocated for extending the state's Conservation Easement Tax Credit Program and supported funding for fuel reduction and landscape-scale mitigation on public lands. He previously served as a western lands policy fellow for the organization.