KANSAS CITY – Biologists for the Missouri Department of Conservation, or MDC, completed a fish habitat project at Truman Lake. Cedar trees were sunk in and around the Turpin Branch area. Underwater brush provides structure that attracts bait fish and sport fish, providing a good place for anglers to catch fish, especially crappie. MDC conducted similar fish habitat improvement projects in recent years at lakes throughout Missouri. The department completed a project earlier this spring in the Osage River arm of Truman Lake, near the Osage Bluff Marina in the area of the Route KK island. The Global Positioning System, or GPS, coordinates for the new sunken brush piles will be posted later on the MDC website, Chris Brooke said. He is the MDC fisheries management biologist. Habitat project locations at the state’s lakes can be located on the free MDC MO Fishing app, available for down load at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/ZJZ. As reservoirs age, original fish habitat decays and vanishes. MDC…