This waco is an idiot, living in New Mexico and stopping fire protection in California. You thank you have heard it all until these guys fes up to what they are actually doing.
Yeah, he doesn't need wood products; he's likely living in an adobe mud house/hut in SF. But I'll bet he has a wood stove and burns wood for heat. Having lived there in the past, it's a badge of honor not to use "modern" fossil fuels (like clean-burning natural gas, or electric heating). Of course the wood burning smoke contributes to more air pollution than any other type, and is why they have "no-burn" nights in Albuquerque, and probably soon in Santa Fe.