Corral Canyon Cave

A woman puts more clothes on while California State Park ranger Dexter Crowder checks the identification of one of four artists whom he cited for violation of a superintendent’s closure order at Corral Canyon cave in Malibu.

Detail of graffiti painted on rocks at Corral Canyon Cave.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

California State Park supervising ranger D. Lindsey Templeton, right, watches fellow ranger Dexter Crowder, center, enter the Corral Canyon Cave to cite one of a group of four artists filming for violation of a superintendent’s closure order at the cave.

California State Park ranger Dexter Crowder, right, picks up trash and views newly painted grafitti after catching a group of four artists filming and issuing one of them a citation for violation of a closure order.

California State Park Ranger Dexter Crowder climbs through “the birth canal” of the Corral Canyon Cave.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Detail of a Doors lyric graffiti painted on rocks at Corral Canyon Cave.

A pair of briefs hangs from a tree branch where state park rangers have also found bras, aerosol paint cans, condoms, trash, burned firewood, people having sex, excrement, cigarette butts and drug paraphernalia at Corral Canyon Cave in Malibu.

Corral Canyon resident Steve Woods, right, whose home was partially scorched from a 2007 fire that was started by people kicking burning firewood out of the Corral Canyon Cave, listens as California State Park Supervising Ranger D. Lindsey Templeton explains to hiking guide Adam McLean of Hollywood that the cave is closed.