Lakeland Ełckie includes extensive beautifully combined forest, lakes, hills and valleys of the moraine and areas it takes. This area is rich in wildlife. In live scrounge roe deer, deer, wild boar, hares, cowards, Martens, and even wolves. The wetland areas in the vicinity of Irons you can meet Moose, and in the forests-beavers.
While the Lake are rich in various species of fish. A significant part of this protected landscape areas. All this together makes this area are a paradise for anglers, mushroom pickers and lovers of long hiking, biking, canoeing and skiing.
In 1997, eight municipalities: town and villages in Ełk, Kalinowo, Kowale Oleckie, Prostki, Stare Juchy and Świętajno. and Wieliczka signed an agreement for the development Of Ełckie. The main objective of the agreement is a common representation and promotion of the region. The agreement has adopted as its symbol of Stork, and the name of the land of Stork, because they occur commonly in these areas. Storks live only in an unpolluted environment. Their presence in Ełk County is for the tourist guarantee the purity of the environment the land of Stork.
