After Thompson, La Milpa was not explored again until the 1970s, when David M. Pendergast and Stanley Loten conducted a field project at the site.
Sphenarium purpurascens, the chapulín de la milpa or gafanhoto-do-milho, a grasshoppers species found in Mexico and Guatemala
Beginning in the 1980s, Q'eqchi' Maya from highland Alta Verapaz have moved into the region, using much of the local land for milpa.
In 2007 Trio La Milpa was the first American classical music group to tour Greenland where they played several performances to capacity crowds in the capital city of Nuuk as well as Sisimiut.