In the triangle between the old riverbed of the Drava River, Dravinja River with the Haloze edge and Videm hedge under the embankment of the Ptuj Lake, lie the remains of the fluvial landscape which extend over 125 hectares, and that have been insured as the Šturmovci Landscape Park since 1979. On the north-west side it is bounded by the Ptuj Lake, on the south slopes of Haloze, and in the east of the confluence of Drava and Dravinja. It is a wide flood area and an effective high-water reservoir. The area is distinguished by a variety of living environments, all from gravel, shallow water, cut-off meanders, and spring meadows, to mown and unmown flood forests and meadows. The first natural value of the Šturmovci Landscape Park is the river meadow, which is just the remainder of the once extensive meadows along Drava between Maribor and Ormož. The meadow is a wide flood area along the river, with white willows growing in its deepest parts which can be flooded for a bigger part of the year. On higher and drier spots, the willows disappear and are replaced by poplars, ash trees, elms, oaks and others, which can stay in water for up to three months per year. The rhythm of life in the meadow is dictated by floods; the water sweeps away, shifts the gravel, the sand dunes and the soil together with trees.